Agents of European overseas empires: Private colonisers, 1450-1800

Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: ‘private’ European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities. The chapters adopt intra- as well as inter-imperial perspectives and transport the reader to colonial America, the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia, or Ceylon, through the Dutch, English, French and Spanish empires. Agents of European overseas empires offers crucial insight on how these actors acquired profits and power and, in turn, laid the platforms for European global empires.Agents of European overseas empires: Private colonisers, 1450-1800 is written by Agnès Delahaye, Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, L.H. Roper and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and published by Manchester University Press. ISBNs for Agents of European overseas empires are 9781526167323, 1526167328 and the print ISBNs are 9781526167330, 1526167336. Additional ISBNs include 9781526167347.