Constructing Early Modern empires : proprietary ventures in the Atlantic world, 1500-1750 / edited by L.H. Roper and B. van Ruymbeke.

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TextSeries: Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 11.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (vi 423 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789047419037
9047419030
1281921149
9781281921147
9786611921149
6611921141

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Constructing Early Modern empires.DDC classification:

970 22

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JV105 .C66 2007eb

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15.59

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Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction (L.H. Roper and Bertrand van Ruymbeke); Chapter One Creating Colonial Brazil: the First Donatary Captaincies, or the System of Private Exclusivity (1534-1549) (Mickaël Augeron and Laurent Vidal); Chapter Two Adelantados and Encomenderos in Spanish America (Olivier Caporossi); Chapter Three Financiers, Factors, and French Proprietary Companies in West Africa, 1673-1713 (Kenneth J. Banks); Chapter Four Proprietorships in French North America (Leslie Choquette); Chapter Five French Louisiana in the Age of the Companies, 1712-1731 (Cécile Vidal).

Chapter Six French Proprietary Colonies in the Greater Caribbean, 1620s-1670s (Philip Boucher)Chapter Seven Power in the English Caribbean: the Proprietorship of Lord Willoughby of Parham (Sarah Barber); Chapter Eight Bubbles and Beggars and the Bodies of Laborers: the Georgia Trusteeship's Colonialism Reconsidered (James O'Neil Spady); Chapter Nine The Mason Patents: Conflict, Controversy, and the Quest for Authority in Colonial New Hampshire (David Dewar); Chapter Ten Dutch Proprietary Manors in America: the Patroonships in New Netherland (Jaap Jacobs).

Chapter Eleven New Jersey: the Long Lived Proprietary (Maxine N. Lurie)Chapter Twelve Calvert's Catholic Colony (Debra A. Meyers); Chapter Thirteen Conceiving an Anglo-American Proprietorship: Early South Carolina History in Perspective (L.H. Roper); List of Contributors; Index.

Summary: Presents essays on early modern Atlantic empires providing a comprehensive treatment of this vehicle of imperial formation and colonial development. This book contains studies ranging from South Carolina to Nieuw Nederland to French West Africa to Brasil, which broadens this discussion beyond British North America.

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Presents essays on early modern Atlantic empires providing a comprehensive treatment of this vehicle of imperial formation and colonial development. This book contains studies ranging from South Carolina to Nieuw Nederland to French West Africa to Brasil, which broadens this discussion beyond British North America.

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