ABSTRACT
In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the relations between established colonies and frontiers of settlement. Their original essays about centers and peripheries in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British America invite comparison.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Peripheries, Centers, and the Construction of Early Modern American Empires
An Introduction
chapter |26 pages
Bourbons and Bárbaros
Center and Periphery in the Reshaping of Spanish Indian Policy
chapter |22 pages
Other Netherlands Beyond the Sea
Dutch America between Metropolitan Control and Divergence, 1600–1795
chapter |16 pages
Transatlantic Colonization and the Redefinition of Empire in the Early Modern Era
The British-American Experience
chapter |18 pages
Perceptions from the Periphery
Colonial American Views of Britain's Asiatic Empire, 1756–1783
