| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 295 pages) : maps |
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Warfare and culture series |
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Warfare and culture series.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 Russians and Ottomans in Central Asia, empire builders could not avoid military interactions with Native populations, and many discovered that imperial expansion was impossible without the cooperation, and, in some cases, alliances with the natives they encountered in the new worlds they sought to rule |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Imperialism.
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Indigenous peoples
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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Politics and Government.
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Imperialism
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Indigenous peoples
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Imperialismus
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Kolonialmacht
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Indigenes Volk
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Krieg
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Bündnis
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Indigenes Volk.
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Imperialismus.
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Krieg.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lee, Wayne E., 1965- editor.
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| LC no. |
2010053654 |
| ISBN |
9780814753095 |
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0814753094 |
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9780814765272 |
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0814765270 |
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