A history of the two Indies : a translated selection of writings from Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements des Européens dans les Deux Indes

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• Contents: Introduction; Discoveries, wars and conquests of the Portuguese in the East Indies; Settlements, wars, policies and commerce of the Dutch in the East Indies; Settlements, trade and conquests of the English in the East Indies; Voyages, settlements, wars and commerce of the French in the East Indies; Commerce of Denmark, Ostend, Sweden, Prussia, Spain and Russia in the East Indies. Important questions concerning links between Europe and the Indies; The discovery of America. The conquest of Mexico. Spanish settlements in this part of the New World; The Spanish conquest of Peru. Changes in this empire since it acquired new rulers; The Spanish conquest of Chile and Paraguay. Events accompanying and following the invasion. Principles on which Spain organizes its colonies; The Portuguese settle in Brazil. Wars they waged there. Products and wealth of this colony; The European nations become established in the great American archipelago; The Europeans go into Africa to buy men to cultivate the plantations of the West Indies. Conduct of this trade. What is produced by the labour of the slaves; Settlements of the Spanish, the Dutch and the Danes in the American islands; French settlements in the American islands; British settlements in the American islands; French settlements in North America. On what was their hope of prosperity based? What was the result of these projects?; A new order is established in the French colonies of North America. What is the result of these new projects?; The British colonies in the territories of Hudson Bay, Canada, A?le Saint-Jean, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New England, New York and New Jersey; The British colonies founded in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, Georgia and Florida. General reflections on all these settlements; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.