<p>FOREWORD</p> <p>SERIES EDITOR PREFACE</p> <p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</p> <p>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS</p> <p>INTRODUCTION</p> <p>Motivation: “Christians, Spices and More?”</p> <p>The Means: “Maps, Money, and Ships”</p> <p>Was the World Flat or Round?</p> <p>Caravels, Naus, and Carracks</p> <p>The Iberian Century, ca. 1490 to 1600</p> <p>The First Century of Global Conflict, 1600-1700</p> <p>1 THE PORTUGUESE EMPIRE IN ASIA AND BRAZIL, ca. 1500-1700</p> <p>Portugal and Prince Henry the Navigator</p> <p>Rounding the Cape of Good Hope: The Reign of D. João II</p> <p>The First Voyage of Vasco da Gama (1497-1499)</p> <p>Building a Spice Empire in Asia, ca. 1500-1520</p> <p>First Page of Caminha’s Letter</p> <p>T he Estado da India, 1520-1600</p> <p>Building a Land Empire in Brazil, 1500-1600</p> <p>Decline and Rebirth in Asia and Brazil, 1600-1700</p> <p>Seventeenth Century Brazil: The Dutch Challenge and Beyond</p> <p>Sources</p> <p>2 THE SPANISH EMPIRE IN THE NEW WORLD, CA. 1480-1700</p> <p>The Enterprise of the Indies</p> <p>Columbus’s Fleet of 1492</p> <p>Columbus’s Later Expeditions and Death</p> <p>Early Attempts at Empire, 1493-1520</p> <p>The Voyage of Magellan</p> <p>Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico</p> <p>Pizarro and the Incas</p> <p>The Age of the Conquistadores</p> <p>Administering the New World</p> <p>The Philippines, 1521-1700</p> <p>The Economic Structures of Spanish America</p> <p>Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Spanish America</p> <p>Religion and the Missionary Orders</p> <p>Survival of Empire in the 17<sup>th</sup> Century</p> <p>Sources</p> <p>3 THE DUTCH EMPIRE IN ASIA AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD, CA. 1600-1700</p> <p>The Voyage of Houtman, 1595-1597</p> <p>Competing Dutch Companies, 1597-1602</p> <p>The Foundation of the United Dutch East India Company, 1602</p> <p>The Dutch Strategy</p> <p>Empire Building in Indonesia, ca. 1609-1629</p> <p>The Spice Islands</p> <p>Consolidation and Expansion under Van Diemen</p> <p>Warfare with the Portuguese on Ceylon 1638-1658</p> <p>Malacca and Japan</p> <p>The Dutch West India Company (WIC) 16221-1700</p> <p>The Maetsuycker Years in Asia, 1653-1678</p> <p>Mounting Problems for the VOC, 1660-1700</p> <p>Sources</p> <p>4 THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH EMPIRES IN THE NEW WORLD AND ASIA, CA. 1600-1700</p> <p>Privateers and the Periphery of World Empire</p> <p>The English Empire in the New World and Asia, 1500-1700</p> <p>The Northwest Passage</p> <p>Privateering and Permanent Colonies</p> <p>Virginia and Massachusetts</p> <p>Carribean, South America, and the ‘Triangular Trade’</p> <p>The English East India Company</p> <p>Rivalry with the Dutch in Indonesia, ca. 1600-1623</p> <p>The Shift to Persia and India, ca. 1620-1700</p> <p>The French Challenge ca. 1500-1600</p> <p>The Voyages of Jacques Cartier, 1534-1544</p> <p>The French Empire in Canada and the Caribbean, 1600-1700</p> <p>The French Empire in the Indian Ocean Basin, 1500-1700</p> <p>Sources</p> <p>EPILOGUE: MAKING CONNECTIONS</p> <p>BIBLIOGRAPHY</p> <p>INDEX</p>
