List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
Introduction Perspectives on European Expansion
Chapter 1 Europe Crosses the Threshold
Chapter 2 Ambiguous Identity and Cultural Opportunism?
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