"Building the Atlantic Empires explores the relationship between state recruitment of unfree labor and capitalist and imperial development. In contrast to much imperial and labor history, this collection of essays shows Western European states as an agent of capitalist expansion. Extending the...

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining...

Migration in the Mediterranean across disciplines / Elena Ambrosetti, Donatella Strangio -- A provincial level analysis of Italian emigration to Africa : who left and why / Francesca Fauri -- The South-European model of immigration : cross-national differences by sending area in labour-market...

Of the mission of Saint Francois Xavier on the "Bay of Stinkards," or rather "Of stinking waters" / Father Allouez -- On the hunting of the Gaspesians / Father Chrestien LeClercq -- The hunting of moose, of bears, of beavers, of lynxes, and other animals according to their seasons / Father...