European overseas trade and diplomacy in some parts of the world
went hand in hand with colonization and conquest in others areas.
As the introduction to this third volume explains, and the eight
expertly written chapters assembled here detail, these were not
divergent but intricately connected activities. Through detailed
attention to Renaissance literature, travel books, political,
scientific and commercial writing, they show how European contact
with Asia, the Americas and Africa spurred innovations in warfare,
seafaring, and accounting. Demanding the creation of international
law, and new labour practices at home and abroad, this contact
overhauled previous conceptions of nature, race and sexuality and
shaped debates on religion, politics, and power. Renaissance
culture, in all its diversity and dynamism, was both the midwife of
empire and its progeny. A Cultural History of Western Empires in
the Renaissance offers a new understanding of Renaissance culture,
commonly understood as a blooming of arts, literature, philosophy,
politics, commerce and science that together marked a high point of
Western civilization and laid the foundation stone of modernity. It
shows that this "rebirth" is organically connected to the processes
by which Spain, the Italian states, France, England, and the
Netherlands tried to establish their first overseas empires.
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