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Part of the Connections: Key Themes in World History series, The Globe Encompassed combines the most recent secondary work in the field with the author's own personal archival work to present a updated synthesis of the topic. 

The Globe Encompassed lays out in clear narrative form a series of connected stories that simultaneously instruct and fascinate the reader. Beyond that, the author-guide provides carefully chosen excerpts from primary sources that enable the reader to enter the mindsets of such notable personalities (and driving forces in Europe’s profound impact on the early modern world) as Vasco da Gama, Hernan Cortés, and Samuel de Champlain, and to see first-hand such widely separated and profoundly different colonial enterprises as Dutch-held Batavia (Jakarta) and Puritan New England.  In so doing, Ames allows the reader to encompass the globe as it existed between 1500 and 1700.

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The Globe Encompassed lays out in clear narrative form a series of connected stories that simultaneously instruct and fascinate the reader. Beyond that, the author-guide provides carefully chosen excerpts from primary sources that enable the reader to enter the mindsets of such notable personalities (and driving forces in Europe’s profound impact on the early modern world) as Vasco da Gama, Hernan Cortés, and Samuel de Champlain, and to see first-hand such widely separated and profoundly different colonial enterprises as Dutch-held Batavia (Jakarta) and Puritan New England.  In so doing, Ames allows the reader to encompass the globe as it existed between 1500 and 1700.

How do you ensure that students have a strong understanding of the information address in your course?

• The main outlines of European expansion are examined utilizing a comparative approach.
• Maps and charts that help explain the material in each chapter.

Do you want to expose your students to both secondary and archival sources?

• This book combines the most recent secondary work in the field with Glenn J. Ames's personal archival work to present a updated synthesis of the topic.  

  Each chapter will also include readings from primary sources related to the topic. Some of these sources come from earlier published editions, others are translations of archival documents that have not hitherto been published.

Do you integrate current research/work into your course?

• It is based on the recent work in the field that that is not covered in other texts.

 The Globe Encompassed is part of the Connections: Key Themes in World History series. (Click here to see all titles in the series)

Connections: Key Themes in World History  focuses on specific issues of world historical significance from antiquity to the present. It does so by employing a combination of explanatory narrative, primary sources, questions relating to those sources, a summary analysis (“Making Connections”), and further points to ponder, all of which combine to enable readers to discover some of the most important driving forces in world history.

This series is created to bridge the gap between professional publications and general surveys, especially surveys of world history. The increasingly rapid  pace and specialization of historical inquiry has created an ever-widening gap between professional publications and general surveys, especially surveys of world history. The purpose of Connections is to bridge that gap by placing the latest research and debates on selected topics of global historical significance, as well as some of the evidence upon which historians base their insights, into a form and context that is comprehensible to students and general readers alike.

Two pedagogical principles infuse this series. First, students master world history most easily if allowed to focus on specific themes and issues. Such themes,  by their very specificity, as well as because of their general application,  enable students to perceive and understand the overall patterns and meaning of our shared global past more clearly than is possible through reading, by itself,  a massive world history textbook. Second, students learn best when asked to think critically about what they are studying. So far as the study of history is concerned, critical thinking necessarily involves analysis of primary sources. 

This series is made up of brief, tightly focused  books that embrace a radical simplicity and a  provocative format. Each book  goes to the heart of a key theme, phenomenon, or issue in world history–something that has connected humans across cultures, continents, and time spans. By actively engaging with this material, the reader comes to understand in a nuanced and meaningful manner how often distantly located human cultures have been connected to one another as key actors in the epic story of world history.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

SERIES EDITOR PREFACE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Motivation: “Christians, Spices and More?”

The Means: “Maps, Money, and Ships”

Was the World Flat or Round?

Caravels, Naus, and Carracks

The Iberian Century, ca. 1490 to 1600

The First Century of Global Conflict, 1600-1700

1 THE PORTUGUESE EMPIRE IN ASIA AND BRAZIL, ca. 1500-1700

Portugal and Prince Henry the Navigator

Rounding the Cape of Good Hope: The Reign of D. João II

The First Voyage of Vasco da Gama (1497-1499)

Building a Spice Empire in Asia, ca. 1500-1520

First Page of Caminha’s Letter

T he Estado da India, 1520-1600

Building a Land Empire in Brazil, 1500-1600

Decline and Rebirth in Asia and Brazil, 1600-1700

Seventeenth Century Brazil: The Dutch Challenge and Beyond

Sources

2 THE SPANISH EMPIRE IN THE NEW WORLD, CA. 1480-1700

The Enterprise of the Indies

Columbus’s Fleet of 1492

Columbus’s Later Expeditions and Death

Early Attempts at Empire, 1493-1520

The Voyage of Magellan

Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico

Pizarro and the Incas

The Age of the Conquistadores

Administering the New World

The Philippines, 1521-1700

The Economic Structures of Spanish America

Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Spanish America

Religion and the Missionary Orders

Survival of Empire in the 17^th Century

Sources

3 THE DUTCH EMPIRE IN ASIA AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD, CA. 1600-1700

The Voyage of Houtman, 1595-1597

Competing Dutch Companies, 1597-1602

The Foundation of the United Dutch East India Company, 1602

The Dutch Strategy

Empire Building in Indonesia, ca. 1609-1629

The Spice Islands

Consolidation and Expansion under Van Diemen

Warfare with the Portuguese on Ceylon 1638-1658

Malacca and Japan

The Dutch West India Company (WIC) 16221-1700

The Maetsuycker Years in Asia, 1653-1678

Mounting Problems for the VOC, 1660-1700

Sources

4 THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH EMPIRES IN THE NEW WORLD AND ASIA, CA. 1600-1700

Privateers and the Periphery of World Empire

The English Empire in the New World and Asia, 1500-1700

The Northwest Passage

Privateering and Permanent Colonies

Virginia and Massachusetts

Carribean, South America, and the ‘Triangular Trade’

The English East India Company

Rivalry with the Dutch in Indonesia, ca. 1600-1623

The Shift to Persia and India, ca. 1620-1700

The French Challenge ca. 1500-1600

The Voyages of Jacques Cartier, 1534-1544

The French Empire in Canada and the Caribbean, 1600-1700

The French Empire in the Indian Ocean Basin, 1500-1700

Sources

EPILOGUE: MAKING CONNECTIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX