Table of Contents

Preface, Christine DanielsPeripheries, Centers and the Construction of Early Modern American Empires: An Introduction, Jack P. Greene and Amy Turner BushnellGates and Patterns: Regarding the Spanish American Peripheries, Amy Turner BushnellIntegral to Empire: The Vital Peripheries of Colonial Spanish America, John Jay TepaskReconsidering the Center: Puebla and Mexico City, 1550-1650, Ida AltmanColonial Centers, Colonial Peripheries and the Economic Agency of the Spanish State, Lyman L. Johnson and Susan Migden SocolowBourbons and Barbaros: Center and Periphery in the Reshaping of Spanish Indian Policy, David J. WeberCenters and Peripheries in the Luso-Brazilian World, 1500-1808, A.J.R. Russell-Wood The Periphery of the Periphery?: Vila Boa de Goias, 1780-1835, Mary KaraschOther Netherlands Beyond the Sea: Dutch America Between Metropolitan Control and Divergence, 1600-1795, Wim KloosterCenter and Periphery in French North America, Leslie ChoquetteThe Frontier Era of the French Caribbean, 1620s-1690s, Philip BoucherNegotiating an Empire: Britain and Its Overseas Peripheries, c. 1550-1780, Elizabeth Mancke Transatlantic Colonization and the Definition of Empire in the Early Modern Era: The British-American Experience, Jack P. GreenePerceptions from the Periphery: Colonial American Views of Britain's Asiatic Empire, 1756-1783, H.V. BowenEmpire for Liberty: Center and Peripheries in Post-Colonial America, Peter S. Onuf