Agents of European Overseas Empires : Private Colonisers, 1450-1800.

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Front matter -- Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Tensions within imperial projects -- Global trade and its benefits for 'the nation': The examples of early modern France and Britain -- Comparing and criticising early modern imperial policies in the Age of Revolution: Abbé Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes -- Global pursuits: English overseas initiatives of the long seventeenth century in perspective -- Part II: The limits of imperial control -- The limits of royal control over migration to Spanish America in the sixteenth century -- Imperial struggles, colonisation and the Dutch slave trade in seventeenth-century New Netherland -- The control of unfree labour across the Dutch Empire in the eighteenth century -- Part III: Local adaptations and developments -- Settler colonialism and early American history -- Colonising the Cape of Good Hope: Company policy and settlers' interests in a contested space of European occupation in Southern Africa -- Shipping mules in the eighteenth century: New England's equine exports to the West Indies -- Epilogue: Perspectives on the mechanisms and impacts of overseas colonisation in the early modern era - then and now -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Agents of European overseas empires examines networks of trade and communication on a global scale whose activities enabled early modern European overseas empires.