{"title":"Europe And The World In Age Of Expansion","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"spain-and-portugal-in-the-new-world-1492-1700-book-lyle-n-mcalister-9780816612185","title":"Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700","description":"Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700  was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.  Spanish and Portuguese expansion substantially altered the social, political, and economic contours of the modern world. In his book, Lyle McAlister provides a narrative and interpretive history of the exploration and settlement of the Americas by Spain and Portugal.  McAlister divides this period (and the book) into three parts. First, he describes the formation of Old World societies with particular attention to those features that influenced the directions and forms of overseas expansion. Second, he traces the dynamic processes of conquest and colonization that between 1492 and about 1570 firmly established Spanish and Portuguese dominion in the New World. The third part deals with colonial growth and consolidation down to about 1700. McAlister's main themes are: the post-conquest territorial expansion that established the limits of what later came to be called Latin America, the emergence of distinctively Spanish and Portuguese American societies and economies, the formation of systems of imperial control and exploitation, and the ways in which conflicts between imperial and American interests were reconciled.  This comprehensive history, with its extensive bibliographic essay and attention to historiographic issues, will be a standard reference for students and scholars of the period.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50296466178321,"sku":"CIN0816612188G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51695341142289,"sku":"CIN0816612188A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0816612188.jpg?v=1764845406"},{"product_id":"rival-empires-of-trade-in-the-orient-1600-1800-book-holden-furber-9780816608515","title":"Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800","description":"Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800  was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.  This volume presents an account of European expansion in Asia through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the story of the rivalries of the East India companies and the growth of British maritime dominance which forged the Pax Britannica destined to keep Asia under European control until 1941. The author explains that it is called Rival Empires of  Trade in the Orient  because the few thousands of Europeans who built these empires thought of themselves primarily as merchants rather than as rulers.  The book consists of two parts, the first, narrative, the second, interpretive. The story of European commercial activity in the East is told in three chapters, the first ending with the Dutch conquest of Ceylon in 1656 and the reorganization and revival of the English East India Company as a permanent joint stock company under Oliver Cromwell's charter of 1657. The second chapter ends with the European peace settlement at Utrecht in 1713, and the third with the establishment of British preponderance in the East India trade at the close of the eighteenth century.  In the second part the author discusses the organization and structure of East India companies, the commodities in East India trade, the nature, growth, and development of the \"country trade,\" and the relations between Europeans and Asians with some reference to the growth of European knowledge of Asia and the influence of the European presence in Asia on social history in both Asia and Europe.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50368342819089,"sku":"CIN0816608512G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0816608512.jpg?v=1764928610"},{"product_id":"false-dawn-book-raymond-f-betts-9780816608522","title":"The False Dawn","description":"The False Dawn was first published in 1975. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.  As the author explains, the false dawn that greeted and disappointed the visitors in E. M. Forster's A Passage to India  is a literary image that might serve as a value judgment of modern overseas empire in general. Commenting that the term \"empire\" is now badly tarnished, Professor Betts points out that no bright dawn of understanding has yet appeared on the academic horizon. With this perceptive viewpoint, he traces the course of European imperialism beginning with the Treaty of Paris in 1763 and ending with a final glance toward the Western Front in August, 1914.  Reviewing the book in the Historian, Lawrence J. 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