Settler Colonialism and early American History

Burnard, Trevor; Delahaye, Agnès

Abstract

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.

Citation

Burnard, T., & Delahaye, A. (2024). Settler Colonialism and early American History. In E. Peyrol-Kleiber, L. Roper, B. Van Ruymbeke, & A. Delahaye (Eds.), Agents of European Overseas Empires: Private Colonisers, 1450-1800 (153-178). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526167347.00016

• Online Publication Date: Mar 12, 2024
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2024
• Deposit Date: May 30, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 2, 2025
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Pages: 153-178
• Series Title: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Book Title: Agents of European Overseas Empires: Private Colonisers, 1450-1800
• Chapter Number: 7
• ISBN: 9781526167330
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526167347.00016
• Keywords: Atlantic; settlers; colonialism; Jamaica; New England
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4677381