Books in the An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800 series

This work looks at historiographical approaches to the encounters between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. It uses a range of research reviews to compare directly approaches relating to colonial North America, Brazil, the Spanish borderlands and the Caribbean.

Merchant organisation was a global phenomenon in the early modern era, and in the growing contacts between peoples and cultures, merchants may be seen as privileged intermediaries.

The pattern of trade between Europe and Asia underwent a structural modification following the Portugese discovery of a route to the East Indies via the Cape of good Hope. This volume illustates the consequences of large numbers of Europeans in the East.

In the 15th-18th centuries, the spice trade from the Indian Ocean to markets all over the world was a major economic enterprise. This collection reviews trade in a wide variety of spices, exploring merchant organization, transport and marketing.

This work on technology transfer between Europe and overseas begins with firearms and maritime conquest; goes on to cover the outward transmission of European technology; describes the persistence of indigenous tools and modes of organization; and shows selective adoption of Western technology.

These 15 studies reflect advances in research and methodology that have been made since 1960 in the historiography of European expansion. The material focuses on the beginnings of trans-oceanic expansion by the Iberian powers and on early encounters preceding patterns of interaction.

This volume deals with the changes and continuities in historical approaches over the last 50 years. It also focuses on initial contacts, formal presences and informal presences. Emphasis is placed on the major European players in Asia and Africa before 1800 - the Portuguese, Dutch and English.

This volume surveys the slave trade from the 16th to 18th centuries. It examines the numbers of slaves transported, the populations enslaved, the imperial strategies of European powers, factors of age, sex and ethnicity, and the impact on economic change in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.

An anthology of short writings on mining in the parts of the world that fell under European influence from the mid-15th to the early-19th centuries. This is mainly Latin America, where the principle metals were gold and silver.

This volume contains 15 articles dealing with medical and demographic consequences of the expansion of Europe into the New World and South America. Looking at the effects of hitherto unknown European diseases had on the native Indian populations and on the slave trade.

A collection of essays examining the transformation of European Christianity into world-wide religion. Essays discuss such areas as the phenomenon of conversion and missionary anti-feminism and present Christian missions as part of the history of humankind and the interactions of cultures.

This volume reflects the advances in research and methodology that have been made since 1960, as well as the increasing number of topics covered by the historiography of the European expansion.

This volume examines the role of textiles within the expanding global economy in the Age of European Exploration.

By turns exotic, valuable and of cardinal importance in the development of world trade, spices, as the editor reminds us, are today a mundane accessory in any well-equiped kitchen; in the 15th-18th centuries, the spice trade from the Indian Ocean to markets all over the world was a major economic enterprise.