03 - Scramble for the Americas
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3. The Scramble for the Americas
Spain’s Conquest of the New World
The formation of the Spanish New World empire and its consequences for world politics.
The Iberian Thrust
Portugal’s and Spain’s voyages of discovery. Why did Iberians sail into the Atlantic
and stumble upon the New World
?
Columbus and his Consequences
Two international systems collide: the European and the Mesoamerican. 1492 as a
turning point in world history—and the history of international relations relations.
The Conquest of the Mexican Empire
The Spanish conquest of the Mexica Empire. Why did a complex agrarian empire
succumb so quickly to a (relatively) tiny number of Spanish conquistadors
?
The Conquest of the Incan Empire
The Spanish conquest of the Incan Empire. Ditto. (But what, if anything, made the
conquest of the Inca different from the conquest of the Mexica
?
)
American Empire and European Geopolitics
What difference did Spain’s vast American Empire make to Spanish efforts to
dominate Europe in the 16th and early 17th centuries
?
The New World as a Strategic Hinterland
Where do the Americas situate in relation to the evolution of Europe’s early-modern international
system
?
Europe's Counter-Hegemonic Wars
The backlash against Spanish-Habsburg in Europe. What strategies do France and
the Protestant powers employ, and how do these strategies shape international
relations
?
How to Justify Colonial Predation?
What are the consequences of Europe’s expansion into the non-European world for
early-modern ideas about international society and international order
?
The Endurance of Indigenous (North) America
Where does North America fit in relation to the pattern of early-modern colonization
in the Americas
?
Why does Native independence endure for longer in the North
?
The Making of Anglo-America
The English colonization of the North American seaboard through 1640s. How did
New England differ from New France and New Spain
?
1648: A pivot of European geopolitics?
The resurgence of Europe’s counter-hegemonic wars in the 1620s (Thirty Years’
War). The Peace of Westphalia (1648). What does it do, and what doesn’t it do
?
The Second Hundred Years War
From the wars of anti-Habsburg containment to renewed Anglo-French confrontation.
Unlike the last, the new Hundred Years War spans two worlds.
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The Invention of Great Britain
The transformations of the English/British state during the 17th and 18th centuries.
How did the English Revolution and the Glorious Revolution reshape European
geopolitics
?
The Anglo-French Struggle for North America
The “Second Hundred Years War” and its consequences for European colonization, especially in
North America. The Seven Years War as colonial climax
?
Into a New Era of Colonial Wars
The rise of Louis XIV’s France—and the escalation of the Anglo-French struggle. The
expansion of the Anglo-French conflict into North America.
Slavery and Colonization in the Atlantic World
The depopulation of the New World and the enslavement of African labor. The
problem of accountability for the transatlantic slave trade.
The Colonial Struggle Escalates
The escalation of European colonial warfare in the mid-17C. The historical
significance of Captain Robert Jenkins’ severed ear.
The War of the Austrian Succession
The War of Austrian Succession (1740-48). How do protagonists understand the
colonial war in relation to the struggle for security in Europe
?
The First World War, 1755-1763
The origins and the waging of the Seven Years War, aka the “French and Indian War,”
aka the “Great War for Empire,” aka the “First World War.” The Peace of 1763.
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