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

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...

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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:The Atlantic World 11.
Physical Description:1 online resource (433 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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