Title: The establishment of the European hegemony, 1415-1715; trade and exploration in the age of the Renaissance
Authors: Parry, J. H. 1914-1982.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Year: 1961
Subjects: Colonization History.; Commerce History; Europe History; Europe History
Contents: The tools of the explorers. Charts ; Ships ; Guns -- 'Christians and spices. The sea crusaders ; The cape of storms ; The spice trade ; The Portuguese Indies -- The new world. The fortunate isles ; Discovery ; The interpretation of discovery ; The division of the world -- The silver empire. The Spanish conquest ; The theory of empire ; Soldiers, missionaries and lawyers ; Atlantic trade and the silver fleets -- Fishermen, explorers and slavers. The Atlantic fisheries ; The Search for a Northern passage ; The interlopers in America ; The Privateers -- The struggle for Eastern trade. The Muslim east ; The decline of Portuguese power ; The companies ; The dutch east indies -- The English plantations. The theory of settlement ; The planting companies ; The Puritans -- Rival empires in America. The French in Canada ; West Indian rivalries ; The Portuguese in Brazil ; The Dutch on the High Seas -- The old colonial system. The plantations in 1660 ; The acts of trade ; New York and New England ; Louisiana and Hudson's Bay -- Trade and Dominion in the East. Exploration and expansion in the far east ; Dutch rule in the Islands ; Rival powers in India -- Slavery and the war for trade. Slavery in Spanish America ; Slavery in the Sugar Islands ; The Asientos ; The Spanish Succession -- The bounds of Christendom, 1715.