Negotiated empires : centers and peripheries in the Americas, 1500-1820 / edited by Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Peripheries, centers, and the construction of early modern American empires: an introduction / Amy Turner Bushnell and Jack P. Greene -- Gates, patterns, and peripheries: the field of frontier Latin America / Amy Turner Bushnell -- Integral to empire: the vital peripheries of colonial Spanish America / John Jay TePaske -- Reconsidering the center: Puebla and Mexico City, 1550-1650 / Ida Altman -- Colonial centers, colonial peripheries, and the economic agency of the Spanish state / Lyman L. Johnson and Susan Migden Socolow -- Bourbons and Bárbaros: center and periphery in the reshaping of Spanish Indian policy / David J. Weber -- Centers and peripheries in the Luso-Brazilian world, 1500-1808 / A.J.R. Russell-Wood -- The periphery of the periphery? Vila Boa de Goiás, 1780-1835 / Mary Karasch -- Other Netherlands beyond the sea: Dutch America between metropolitan control and divergence, 1600-1795 / Wim Klooster -- Center and periphery in French North America / Leslie Choquette -- The "Frontier era" of the French Caribbean, 1620s-1690s / Philip P. Boucher -- Negotiating an empire: Britain and its overseas peripheries, c.1550-1780 / Elizabeth Mancke -- Transatlantic colonization and the redefinition of empire in the early modern era: the British-American experience / Jack P. Green -- Perceptions from the periphery: colonial American views of Britain's Asiatic empire, 1756-1783 / H.V. Bowen -- "Empire for liberty": center and peripheries in postcolonial America / Peter S. Onuf.

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In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the relations between established colonies and frontiers of settlement. Their original essays about centers and peripheries in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British America invite comparison.

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