A 1996 comparative history exploring the significance of ceremonies performed by the western imperial powers to mark their territorial possession of the New Wor

A 1996 comparative history exploring the significance of ceremonies performed by the western imperial powers to mark their territorial possession of the New Wor

At last available in a modern, annotated edition, these tales describe combat at sea, extraordinary escapes, and religious conversion, but they also illustrate

A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820 explores the idea that strong links exist in the histories of Africa, Europe and North and South America.

Traces European encounters and use of tobacco and cacao and its eventual commodification into a major business from the earliest period through the seventeenth