Chasing Empire Across The Sea
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Chasing Empire across the Sea
Author: Kenneth J. Banks
language: en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date: 2002-11-21
Banks defines and applies the concept of communications in a far broader context than previous historical studies of communication, encompassing a range of human activity from sailing routes, to mapping, to presses, to building roads and bridges. He employs a comparative analysis of early modern French imperialism, integrating three types of overseas possessions usually considered separately - the settlement colony (New France), the tropical monoculture colony (the French Windward Islands), and the early Enlightenment planned colony (Louisiana) - offering a work of synthesis that unites the historiographies and insights from three formerly separate historical literatures. Banks challenges the very notion that a concrete "empire" emerged by the first half of the eighteenth century; in fact, French colonies remained largely isolated arenas of action and development. Only with the contraction and concentration of overseas possessions after 1763 on the Plantation Complex did a more cohesive, if fleeting, French empire first emerge.
The Sea
Author: Peter N. Miller
language: en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date: 2013-04-16
A unique volume that addresses how a thalassographic frame opens up new and important questions for the study of history
Borderless Empire
Author: Bram Hoonhout
language: en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date: 2020
Introduction: borderless societies -- The borderland -- Political conflicts -- Rebels and runaways -- The centrality of smuggling -- The web of debt -- Borderless businessmen -- Conclusion: the shape of empire.