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Contents

List of Figures, Maps, and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction Perspectives on European Expansion

Chapter 1 Europe Crosses the Threshold

Chapter 2 Ambiguous Identity and Cultural Opportunism?

Chapter 3 An Era of Empires

Chapter 4 Three American Empires

Chapter 5 Africa, Portugal, Brazil, and the Atlantic

Chapter 6 Atlantic North America: No Empires to Conquer

Chapter 7 An Era of World Trade

Chapter 8 Europeans and the World: Spices, Silk, and Silver

Chapter 9 Europeans and Asian Trade in the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 10 Disappearing Colonists: Death, Assimilation, and Desertion

Chapter 11 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography