Ebook: Europeans Abroad, 1450-1750

Europe crosses the threshold -- Ambiguous identity and cultural opportunism? -- An era of empires -- Three American empires -- Africa, Portugal, Brazil, and the Atlantic -- Atlantic North America : no empires to conquer -- An era of world trade -- Europeans and the world : spices, silk, silver -- Europeans and Asian trade in the seventeenth century -- Disappearing colonists : death assimilation, desertion.;"Ringrose looks beyond the traditional history of European expansion, which highlights European conquests, empire building, and hegemony, in order to explore the more human and genuinely cross-cultural dimensions of Europeans abroad before 1750"--