Settlement patterns in early modern colonization, 16th-18th centuries / edited by Joyce Lorimer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lorimer, Joyce.

Series:

Expanding world ; v. 25.

An expanding world ; v. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land settlement patterns.

History.

Land settlement.

Colonies.

Europe--Colonies--History.

Europe.

Land settlement--History.

Land settlement patterns--History.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Great Britain ; Brookfield, VT : Variorum, [1998]

Contents:

New France

1 The Extension of France into Rural Canada / R. Cole Harris 1

2 Propriete seigneuriale et groupes sociaux dans la vallee du Saint-Laurent (1663-1840) / Fernand Ouellet 21

English America and the Caribbean

3 From Organization to Society: Virginia in the Seventeenth Century / Sigmund Diamond 53

4 Looking Out for Number One: Conflicting Cultural Values in Early Seventeenth-Century Virginia / T.H. Breen 73

5 Persistent Localism: English Social Change and the Shaping of New England Institutions / T.H. Breen 93

6 Errand to the Indies: Puritan Colonization from Providence Island through the Western Design / Karen Ordahl Kupperman 119

7 Plantation Production and White "Proto-Slavery": White Indentured Servants and the Colonisation of the English West Indies, 1624-1645 / Hilary McD. Beckles 149

Spanish America

8 Encomienda and Hacienda: The Evolution of the Great Estate in the Spanish Indies / James Lockhart 175

9 Encomienda, Hacienda and Corregimiento in Spanish America: A Structural Analysis / Robert G. Keith 195

Portuguese Brazil

10 The Donatary Captaincy in Perspective: Portuguese Backgrounds to the Settlement of Brazil / H.B. Johnson 211

11 Cities of Empire: Mexico and Bahia in the Sixteenth Century / Stuart B. Schwartz 223

12 Palmares: An African State in Brazil / R.K. Kent 245

Portuguese and Dutch Africa

13 Portuguese Attempts at Monopoly on the Upper Guinea Coast, 1580-1650 / Walter Rodney 263

14 The Portuguese on the Zambesi from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries / M.D.D. Newitt 279

15 The First Two Centuries of Colonial Agriculture in the Cape Colony: A Historiographical Review / Robert Ross 301

Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish Asia

16 Trade and the Flag: The Portuguese at Nagapattinam, 1530-1658 / Sanjay Subrahmanyam 321

17 Batavia, 1619-1740: The Rise and Fall of a Chinese Colonial Town / Leonard Blusse 349

18 The Development of Philippine Cities before 1900 / Daniel F. Doeppers 369.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxiii) and index.

ISBN:

0860785173

OCLC:

40573815