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Global Calvinism
A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist
missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern
period \"A tour de force offering the reader the
best study of global Calvinism in the realms of the Dutch East
India Company.\"-Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, editor,
Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden
Age Calvinism went global in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, as close to a thousand Dutch Reformed
ministers, along with hundreds of lay chaplains, attached
themselves to the Dutch East India and West India companies. Across
Asia, Africa, and the Americas where the trading companies set up
operation, Dutch ministers sought to convert \"pagans,\" \"Moors,\"
Jews, and Catholics and to spread the cultural influence of
Protestant Christianity. As Dutch ministers labored under the
auspices of the trading companies, the missionary project
coalesced, sometimes grudgingly but often readily, with empire
building and mercantile capitalism. Simultaneously, Calvinism
became entangled with societies around the world as encounters with
indigenous societies shaped the development of European religious
and intellectual history. Though historians have traditionally
treated the Protestant and European expansion as unrelated
developments, the global reach of Dutch Calvinism offers a unique
opportunity to understand the intermingling of a Protestant faith,
commerce, and empire.
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Corruption in the Iberian empires : greed, custom, and colonial networks
\"This book provides new perspectives into a subject that historians have largely overlooked. The contributors use fresh archival research from Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and the Philippines to examine the lives of slaves and farmworkers as well as self-serving magistrates, bishops, and traders in contraband. The authors show that corruption was a powerful discourse in the Atlantic world. Investigative judges could dismiss culprits, jail them, or, sometimes, have them 'garroted and their corpses publicly displayed'\"--Provided by publisher.
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Englishmen at Sea
A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account
of England's early maritime empire Drawing on a wealth of
understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor
conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire.
Freewheeling Elizabethan privateering attracted thousands of young
men to the sea, where they acquired valuable skills and a
reputation for ruthlessness. Peace in 1603 forced these predatory
seamen to adapt to a radically changed world, one in which they
were expected to risk their lives for merchants' gain, not plunder.
Merchant trading companies expected sailors to relinquish their
unruly ways and to help convince overseas rulers and trading
partners that the English were a courteous and trustworthy
\"nation.\" Some sailors rebelled, becoming pirates and renegades;
others demanded and often received concessions and shares in new
trading opportunities. Treated gently by a state that was anxious
to promote seafaring in order to man the navy, these determined
sailors helped to keep the sea a viable and attractive trade for
Englishmen.
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The Overseas Trade of British America
A sweeping history of early American trade and the
foundation of the American economy In a single, readily
digestible, coherent narrative, historian Thomas M. Truxes presents
the three hundred-year history of the overseas trade of British
America. Born from seeds planted in Tudor England in the sixteenth
century, Atlantic trade allowed the initial survival, economic
expansion, and later prosperity of British America, and brought
vastly different geographical regions, each with a distinctive
identity and economic structure, into a single fabric. Truxes shows
how colonial American prosperity was only possible because of the
labor of enslaved Africans, how the colonial economy became
dependent on free and open markets, and how the young United States
owed its survival in the struggle of the American Revolution to
Atlantic trade.
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Economies of Representation, 1790-2000
This volume documents the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation. Examining trade in commodities as diverse as illicit drugs, liquor, bananas, disease, tourism, adventure fiction, and modern aboriginal art, as well as cultural exchanges in politics, medicine, and literature, the contributors contest the view of trade as an equaliser of cultures, places, and peoples promoted by some modern economists, demonstrating instead the ways in which commerce has created and exacerbated differences of power.
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The capital and the colonies : London and the Atlantic economy, 1660-1700
\"Between 1660 and 1700, London established itself as the capital and commercial hub of a thriving Atlantic empire, accounting for three quarters of the nation's colonial trade, and playing a vital coordinating role in an increasingly coherent Atlantic system. Nuala Zahedieh's unique study provides the first detailed picture of how that mercantile system was made to work. By identifying the leading colonial merchants, she shows through their collective experiences how London developed the capabilities to compete with its continental rivals and ensure compliance with the Navigation Acts. Zahedieh shows that in making mercantilism work, Londoners helped to create the conditions which underpinned the long period of structural change and economic growth which culminated in the Industrial Revolution\"--Provided by publisher.
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Crisis in an Atlantic Empire
The capstone of a research endeavor begun by Barbara Stein and Stanley Stein nearly sixty years ago, this volume concludes their masterful tetralogy on Spanish economic and Atlantic history.
With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in an Atlantic Empire is a finely grained historical tour of the period covering 1808 to 1810, which is often called \"the age of revolutions.\"
The study examines an accumulation of countervailing elements in a spasm of imperial crisis, as Spain and its major colony New Spain struggled to preserve traditional structures of exchange—Spain's transatlantic trade system—with Caribbean ports at Veracruz and Havana in wartime after 1804. Rooted in the struggle between businessmen seeking to expand their economic reach and the ruling class seeking to maintain its hegemonic control, the crisis sheds light on the contest between free trade and monopoly trade and the politics of preservation among an enduring and influential interest group: merchants.
Reflecting the authors' masterful use of archival sources and their magisterial knowledge of the era's complex metropolitan and colonial institutions, this volume is the capstone of a research endeavor spanning nearly sixty years.
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