Constructing Early Modern empires : proprietary ventures in the Atlantic world, 1500-1750 / edited by L.H. Roper and B. van Ruymbeke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roper, L. H. (Louis H.)

Van Ruymbeke, Bertrand, 1962-

Series:

The Atlantic World 11.

Atlantic world, 1570-0542 ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Colonies--America--History.

Europe.

Europe--Colonies--Africa--History.

Europe--Colonies--Commerce.

Europe--History--1945-.

America--Discovery and exploration--European.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The role of proprietorships or ‘private’ colonies in imperial development has not received the attention it deserves, notwithstanding recent scholarly emphasis on ‘state-building’. The continued use of these ‘private’ devices, even as early modern European nation-states grew more potent, is not only interesting, but is indeed normative though invariably missing from modern studies of empire. This collection provides in-depth analyses of the workings of the proprietorships themselves (rather than proprietary colonies) and in studies ranging from South Carolina to Nieuw Nederland to French West Africa to Brasil, broadens this discussion beyond British North America. Contributors include: Mickaël Augeron, Kenneth Banks, Sarah Barber, Philip Boucher, Olivier Caporossi, Leslie Choquette, David Dewar, Jaap Jacobs, Maxine N. Lurie, Debra A. Meyers, L.H. Roper, James O’Neil Spady, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Cécile Vidal, and Laurent Vidal.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / L.H. Roper and B. Van Ruymbeke

Introduction / L.H. Roper and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke

Chapter One. Creating Colonial Brazil: The First Donatary Captaincies, Or The System Of Private Exclusivity (1534–1549) / Mickaël Augeron and Laurent Vidal

Chapter Two. Adelantados And Encomenderos In Spanish America / Olivier Caporossi

Chapter Three. Financiers, Factors, And French Proprietary Companies In West Africa, 1673–1713 / Kenneth J. Banks

Chapter Four. Proprietorships In French North America / Leslie Choquette

Chapter Five. French Louisiana In The Age Of The Companies, 1712–1731 / Cécile Vidal

Chapter Six. French Proprietary Colonies In The Greater Caribbean, 1620's–1670's / Philip Boucher

Chapter Seven. Power In The English Caribbean: The Proprietorship Of Lord Willoughby Of Parham / Sarah Barber

Chapter Eight. Bubbles And Beggars And The Bodies Of Laborers: The Georgia Trusteeship’S Colonialism Reconsidered / James O’Neil Spady

Chapter Nine. The Mason Patents: Conflict, Controversy, And The Quest For Authority In Colonial New Hampshire / David Dewar

Chapter Ten. Dutch Proprietary Manors In America: The Patroonships In New Netherland / Jaap Jacobs

Chapter Eleven. New Jersey: The Long Lived Proprietary / Maxine N. Lurie

Chapter Twelve. Calvert’s Catholic Colony / Debra A. Meyers

Chapter Thirteen. Conceiving An Anglo-American Proprietorship: Early South Carolina History In Perspective / L.H. Roper

List Of Contributors / L.H. Roper and B. Van Ruymbeke

Index / L.H. Roper and B. Van Ruymbeke.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-92114-9

9786611921149

90-474-1903-0

OCLC:

646789891