Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- PERIPHERIES, CENTERS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF EARLY MODERN AMERICAN EMPIRES An Introduction -- GATES, PATTERNS, AND PERIPHERIES The Field of Frontier Latin America -- INTEGRAL TO EMPIRE The Vital Peripheries of Colonial Spanish America -- RECONSIDERING THE CENTER Puebla and Mexico City, 1550-1650 -- COLONIAL CENTERS, COLONIAL PERIPHERIES, AND THE ECONOMIC AGENCY OF THE SPANISH STATE -- BOURBONS AND BÁRBAROS Center and Periphery in the Reshaping of Spanish Indian Policy -- CENTERS AND PERIPHERIES IN THE LUSO-BRAZILIAN WORLD, 1500-1808 -- THE PERIPHERY OF THE PERIPHERY? Vila Boa de Goiás, 1780-1835 -- OTHER NETHERLANDS BEYOND THE SEA Dutch America between Metropolitan Control and Divergence, 1600-1795 -- CENTER AND PERIPHERY IN FRENCH NORTH AMERICA -- THE "FRONTIER ERA" OF THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN, 1620s-1690s -- NEGOTIATING AN EMPIRE Britain and Its Overseas Peripheries, c. 1550-1780 -- TRANSATLANTIC COLONIZATION AND THE REDEFINITION OF EMPIRE IN THE EARLY MODERN ERA The British-American Experience -- PERCEPTIONS FROM THE PERIPHERY Colonial American Views of Britain's Asiatic Empire, 1756-1783 -- EMPIRE FOR LIBERTY" Center and Peripheries in Postcolonial America -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the relations between established colonies and frontiers of settlement. Their original essays about centers and peripheries in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British America invite comparison.

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