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.

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                                     

The 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