Colonization, piracy, and trade in early modern Europe : the roles of powerful women and queens /: the roles of powerful women and queens. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Estelle Paranque, Nate Probasco, Claire Jowitt, editors.
• Other Names: Paranque, Estelle editor of compilation.; Probasco, Nate editor of compilation.; Jowitt, Claire editor of compilation.
• Contents: 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).
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 255 pages)
• Subjects: 940.0992; History; Queens -- Europe -- History; Empresses -- Europe -- History; Women -- Political activity -- Europe -- History; Monarchy -- Europe -- History; Empresses; Monarchy; Queens; Women -- Political activity; History -- General; Political Science -- General; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; History -- Social History; Colonialism & imperialism; Politics & government; British & Irish history; Social & cultural history; Imperialism; Identity politics; Social history; History -- Europe -- General; European history; Europe; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319571591; 3319571591
• Related ISBNs: 9783319571584; 3319571583
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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