Administrators of Empire
Administrators of Empire

Author: Mark A. Burkholder

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-13

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 0429855524

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Published in 1998, the expansion of Europe overseas required the creation of institutions for governing the conquered peoples, as well as the conquerors, their descendants, and later immigrants. As a group, bureaucrats were essential for the preservation of extensive and long-lasting European colonies. This volume looks in particular at the Americas and sets out the differing responses of Portugal, Spain, Britain and France and the systems they elaborated. A notable theme is the conflict between the demands of the centre, and the local pressures, and the extent to which the bureaucrats often came to identify with these.

Fur, Fashion and Transatlantic Trade During the Seventeenth Century
Fur, Fashion and Transatlantic Trade During the Seventeenth Century

Author: John C. Appleby

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1783275790

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This book explores the development of the fur trade in Chesapeake Bay during the seventeenth century, and the wide-ranging links that were formed in a new and extensive transatlantic chain of supply and consumption. It considers changing fashion in England, the growing demand for fur, at a time when the Russian fur trade was in decline, examines native North Americans and their trading and other exchanges with colonists, and explores the nature of colonial society, including the commercial ambitions of a varied range of investors. As such, it outlines the intense rivalry which existed between different colonies and colonial interests. Although the book argues that fur never supplanted tobacco as the region's principal export, noting that the trade declined as new, more profitable sources of supply were opened up, nevertheless the case of the Chesapeake fur trade provides an excellent example of how different elements in a new transatlantic enterprise fitted together and had a profound impact on each other.

English Colonial Administration Under Lord Clarendon, 1660-1667 (Classic Reprint)
English Colonial Administration Under Lord Clarendon, 1660-1667 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Percy Lewis Kaye

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781333946654

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Excerpt from English Colonial Administration Under Lord Clarendon, 1660-1667 The period between the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 and the Revolution of 1688 was, in England, an epoch of the greatest commercial activity and progress. The begin nings made in the time Of James I, by the founding Of com mercial companies, had by the end of the Cromwellian epoch begun to produce abundant results. Trading companies had proved themselves successful and had increased in numbers until they now carried on their operations in all parts of the known world. In fact the experimental stage in English commercial expansion had been passed and the period of substantial gain had been entered upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.