Agents of European Overseas Empires: Private Colonisers, 1450-1800
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Agents of European Overseas Empires: Private Colonisers, 1450-1800
By (Author) Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber
Edited by L. H. Roper
Edited by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
Edited by Agns Delahaye
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
29th April 2026
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
European history
Economic history
321.03
Physical Properties
Paperback
280
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: 'private' European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities.
The chapters adopt intra- as well as inter-imperial perspectives and transport the reader to colonial America, the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia, or Ceylon, through the Dutch, English, French and Spanish empires. Agents of European overseas empires offers crucial insight on how these actors acquired profits and power and, in turn, laid the platforms for European global empires.
Reviews
"Adds new perspectives and voices to the history of imperialism within the early modern Atlantic world... a powerful and convincing invitation to reimagine the early modern Atlantic." - Sixteenth Century Journal -- .
Author Bio
Delahaye is Associate Professor at Lyon 2 University, Peyrol-Kleiber is Associate Professor at Poitiers University, Roper is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York-New Paltz, Van Ruymbeke is Professor of American History at Paris 8 University.
