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Local Government in European Overseas Empires, 1450–1800

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Academie Royale Des Sciences
Adriaen Van Der Donck
Alcalde Ordinario
Alfonso De Albuquerque
Appointive Offices
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Central Government
Chester County
colonial administration
Colony's Institutions
Colony's Past
company rule colonies
comparative colonial local government
Corporate Land Management
County Commissioners
Coureur De Bois
creole elites
East Indies
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Indies
indigenous governance
Loan Office Certificates
Mayor's Court
municipal institutions
Primary Subject Groups
Provincial Massachusetts
Public Administration
social welfare history
Sovereign Council
Turnover Rate
Van Der Stel
Voc Official
Voc Ship
West India Company

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138361171
  • Weight: 970g
  • Dimensions: 160 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 23 May 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the overseas empires of Portugal, Spain, England and France, with further reference to the English East India Company and the Dutch East and West India Companies. In an exercise in compensatory history, the book examines government of empire not from the metropolitan perspective but at the local level, where government was most likely to impact on the everyday lives of both persons of European birth and indigenous peoples. The first part examines the institutional framework of local and regional government at the municipal, parish and county levels, extending this to include law and order, social welfare and education. The second part examines the social dimension of local government: governance in pluricultural societies; elite formation; creolization; representation and oligarchies; oversight, and negotiated authority. The work includes a comprehensive introduction, together with an extensive bibliography and a detailed index.