Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe

Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe

The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens

Paranque, Estelle; Probasco, Nate; Jowitt, Claire

Springer International Publishing AG

09/2018

255

Mole

Inglês

9783319860916

15 a 20 dias

454

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1. Introduction.- I. Demonstration of Power.- 2. Mary I, Mary of Guise and the Strong Hand of the Scots: Marian Policy in Ulster and Anglo-Scottish Diplomacy, 1553-1558.- 3. Catherine de Medici and Huguenot Colonization, 1560-1567.- 4. Isabel Clara Eugenia, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands: Trade, Politics, & Warfare, Ruling like a King, 1621-1633.- II. Diplomatic Strategies.- 5. Caterina Cornaro and the Colonization of Cyprus.- 6. Trade and Piracy: The Role of a Potential Queen Consort in the 1620s.- 7. "The Princesses' Representative" or Renegade Entrepreneur? Marie Petit, the Silk Trade, and Franco-Persian Diplomacy.- III. Exotic Encounters.- 8. "I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys": Turquoise, Queenship, and the Exotic.- 9. A Vision on Queen Elizabeth's Role in Colonizing America: Stephen Parmenius's De Navigatione (1582).- 10. Captains, Kings, Queens: Politics, Piracy, and the Sea in Middleton's The Phoenix (c. 1603-04)
Colonization;Piracy;Trade;Queen Elizabeth I;Catherine de Medici;Gender Studies;Female Rulers;Queens;Women in History;Women in Foreign Affairs;monarchy studies;Thomas Middleton;the Armada;the Huguenots;Mary I of England;Caterina Cornaro;Isabella Clara Eugenia;early modern diplomacy;Mary of Guise;Anglo-Scottish diplomacy