Empires and Indigenes : intercultural alliance, imperial expansion, and warfare in the early modern world

Empires and Indigenes : intercultural alliance, imperial expansion, and warfare in the early modern world / edited by Wayne E. Lee.

The early modern period (c. 1500-1800) of world history is characterized by the establishment and aggressive expansion of European empires, and warfare between imperial powers and Indigenous peoples was a central component of the quest for global dominance. From the Portuguese in Africa to the Russi...

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Other Authors: Lee, Wayne E., 1965- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
Series:Warfare and culture series.
Subjects:
Imperialism.
Indigenous peoples.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Politics and Government.
Imperialism
Indigenous peoples
Imperialismus
Kolonialmacht
Indigenes Volk
Krieg
Bündnis
Indigenes Volk.
Imperialismus.
Krieg.
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Table of Contents:
  • Projecting power in the early modern world : the Spanish model? / Wayne E. Lee
  • Gaining the diplomatic edge : kinship, trade, and religion in Amerindian alliances in early North America / Jenny Hale Pulsipher
  • The military revolution of native North America : firearms, forts, and polities / Wayne E. Lee
  • Revolution, evolution, or devolution : the military and the making of colonial India / Douglas M. Peers
  • Muscovite-nomad relations on the Steppe frontier before 1800 and the development of Russia's "inclusive" imperialism / David R. Jones
  • Ottoman ethnographies of warfare, 1500-1800 / Virginia Aksan
  • Firearms, diplomacy, and conquest in Angola : cooperation and alliance in West Central Africa, 1491-1671 / John K. Thornton
  • The opportunities and limits of ethnic soldiering : the Tupis and the Dutch-Portuguese struggle for the southern Atlantic, 1630-1657 / Mark Meuwese
  • Deploying tribes and clans : Mohawks in Nova Scotia and Scottish Highlanders in Georgia / Geoffrey Plank
  • "Cleansing the land" : Dutch-Amerindian cooperation in the suppression of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion / Marjoleine Kars.

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