A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Enlightenment Coller Ian
A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Enlightenment Coller Ian This fourth volume of A Cultural History of Western Empires explores the intersections and transformations of empire in…
Specifikacia A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Enlightenment Coller Ian
A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Enlightenment Coller Ian
This fourth volume of A Cultural History of Western Empires explores the intersections and transformations of empire in the late 17th and 18th centuries: an age of "Enlightenment" understood here both as a product of these new forces and as a matrix shaping their emergence and development. Dutch, English and French trading companies backed by state power increasingly overtook the imperial ascendency of Spain and Portugal, while Ottoman and Russian territorial expansion slowed or halted. As innovative ideas transformed warfare, commerce and agriculture, the great "universal" empires confronted new capitalist forces that both splintered and reinforced imperial relations across the globe.
The new forces found their first great expression in the global trade Commodities and capital circulated in new ways, along with people and ideas, yet that mobility was hardly a free exchange.