A History of the Two Indies (eBook, PDF)

A Translated Selection of Writings from Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements des Européens dans les Deux Indes
Redaktion: Jimack, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1770 and running to over one million words, Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes was an immediate bestseller that was to go through numerous editions in various languages. Much of the Histoire's success, and subsequent reputation, was based on its attacks on tyranny, slavery and colonial exploitation. In this current edition, Peter Jimack has chosen a representative selection of passages from all books of the Histoire that shows the breadth and scope of the work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351962391
• Artikelnr.: 47956329

Autorenporträt

Professor Peter Jimack is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Stirling, UK, and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction; Discoveries, wars and conquests of the Portuguese
in the East Indies; Settlements, wars, policies and commerce of the Dutch
in the East Indies; Settlements, trade and conquests of the English in the
East Indies; Voyages, settlements, wars and commerce of the French in the
East Indies; Commerce of Denmark, Ostend, Sweden, Prussia, Spain and Russia
in the East Indies. Important questions concerning links between Europe and
the Indies; The discovery of America. The conquest of Mexico. Spanish
settlements in this part of the New World; The Spanish conquest of Peru.
Changes in this empire since it acquired new rulers; The Spanish conquest
of Chile and Paraguay. Events accompanying and following the invasion.
Principles on which Spain organizes its colonies; The Portuguese settle in
Brazil. Wars they waged there. Products and wealth of this colony; The
European nations become established in the great American archipelago; The
Europeans go into Africa to buy men to cultivate the plantations of the
West Indies. Conduct of this trade. What is produced by the labour of the
slaves; Settlements of the Spanish, the Dutch and the Danes in the American
islands; French settlements in the American islands; British settlements in
the American islands; French settlements in North America. On what was
their hope of prosperity based? What was the result of these projects?; A
new order is established in the French colonies of North America. What is
the result of these new projects?; The British colonies in the territories
of Hudson Bay, Canada, Ãle Saint-Jean, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New
England, New York and New Jersey; The British colonies founded in
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, Georgia and Florida. General
reflections on all these settlements; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.