Settlement Patterns in Early Modern Colonization, 16th-18th Centuries
Published on 20. August 1998
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-86078-517-0 (ISBN)
Description
The articles collected together in this volume allow the reader to look at how plans for overseas settlement, conceived at council tables in Europe, actually took place on the ground overseas. The differing models and spatial distribution patterns of European colonies in the various parts of the New World, Africa and Asia were the result of a complex interplay of numerous conditioning forces. The social structure of particular Western European states, their differing institutional approaches to overseas colonization, their discrete political and economic strategies within any given region, the modifications imposed upon those strategies by the indigenous populations which they encountered, by other commercial competitors, by the realities of the physical environment and the actual economic opportunities it offered all came to play in shaping how, where and under what conditions Europeans settled themselves overseas.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 177 mm
Width: 252 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-86078-517-0 (9780860785170)
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Content
New France: the extension of France into rural Canada, R. Cole Harris; propriete seigneuriale et groupes sociaux dans la vallee du Saint-Laurent (1663-1840), Fernand Ouellet. English North America and the Caribbean: from organization to society - Virginia in the 17th century, Sigmund Diamond; looking out for number one - conflicting cultural values in early 17th century Virginia, T.H. Breen; persistent localism - English social change and the shaping of New England institutions, T.H. Breen; errand to the Indies - puritan colonialization from Providence Island through the western design, Karen Ordahl Kupperman; plantation production and white "proto-slavery" - white indentured servants and the colonization of the English West Indies, 1624-1645, Hilary McD. Beckles. Spanish America: encomienda and hacienda - the evolution of the great estate in the Spanish Indies, James Lockhart; encomienda, hacienda and corregimiento in Spanish America - a structural analysis, Robert G. Keith. Portuguese Brazil: the donatory captaincy in perspective - Portuguese background to the settlement of Brazil, H.B. Johnson; cities of empire - Mexico and Bahia in the 16th century, Stuart B. Schwartz; Palmares -an African state in Brazil, R.K. Kent. Portuguese and Dutch Africa: Portuguese attempts at monopoly on the upper Guinea coast, 1580-1650, Walter Rodney; the Portuguese on the Zambesi from the 17th to the 19th centuries, M.D.D. Newitt; the first two centuries of colonial agriculture in the Cape colony - a historiographical review, robert Ross. Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish Asia: trade and the flag - the Portuguese at Nagapattinam, 1530-1658, Sanjay Subrahmanyam; Batavia, 1619-1740 - the rise and fall of a Chinese colonial town, Leonard Blusse; the development of Philippine cities before 1900, Daniel F. Doeppers.