Preface.
chapter 1
The Norse
'The Seas their Land'
The Norse Impact
Bibliographical Note
chapter 2
The Hanse
The German east
An empire of trade
The Hanseatic legacy
Bibliographical Note
chapter 3 The Venetian
Republic
The most triumphant
city
The east in fee
Prolonged recessional
A new hegemony
Bibliographical Note
chapter 4 The Genoese
Republic
A Genoese Age
A microcosm of empire
Eclipse
Imperial imprint
Bibliographical Note
chapter 5 Portugal
The empire of India
The Atlantic and Africa
Motives and methods
Birth and Death of a new age
A chronicle of disaster
Bibliographical Note
chapter 6 Spain
Hispana Victrix
Spain in America
Masters and Slaves
The roots of empire
The practice of empire
Spaniard and Indian
From Cortes to Quixote
Bibliographical Note
chapter 7 Holland
Dominion of the Seas
Private profit and public good
The business of empire in Asia
The rise and fall of the West India
company
'Oracles of commerce'
Bibliographical Note
chapter 8 France
Promise unfilled
Frenchmen and redskins in Canada
A non-imperial state
The Noble Savage and Indian rights
Bibliographical Note
Chapter 9 England
Armed and Aggressive
beginnings
Routes to the east and the rise of the
East India Company
Pioneer and planter in America and the
West Indies
New commercial horizons; old intellectual
boundaries
CONCLUSION
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