Tabla de Contenidos: “…Silver, mercantilism, and the impulse for colonization -- The first decades of English American settlement, 1607- -- Monetary upheaval, recovery and the Dutch infiltration, 1640- -- Mercantilism, mints, clipping, smuggling, and piracy, 1660- -- Empire in crisis and flux, 1670- -- Showdown in English America, 1675- -- Economic rebellion, competition, and growth in English America, 1680- -- Revolutions of 1685- -- Reconstructing a mercantilist empire, the 1690s -- The grand settlement…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Build a nature-inspired swarm -- Colonize! Discover pathways -- Diffuse! Employ a stochastic model -- Buzz! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…What's past is prologue -- European views of Islam and their correlation with Oriental despotism -- Observant travelers -- Political thinkers and the Orient -- The Oriental despotic universe of Montesquieu -- Edmund Burke and despotism in India -- Alexis de Tocqueville and colonization -- James Mill and John Stuart Mill : despotism in India -- Karl Marx : the Asiatic mode of production and Oriental despotism -- Max Weber : patrimonialism as a political type…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Technology, Media, and the Colonization of Consciousness -- 5. Governance Cultures and Countercultures: Religion, Politics and Public Good -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Making Time Different: Historical Change and the Laws of Nature -- 2 Living the Future: Ideas of Progress and Uncanny Temporality -- 3 “The Explosion of Light”: The Economic Order and the Scientific Revelation of the Future -- 4 Generating Time: Buffon and the Biological Instruments of Futurity -- 5 The Time of Regeneration: Renewal, Rupture, and Beginning Anew in the French Revolution -- Conclusion: Colonizing the Future -- Notes -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Soft gold: Aleuts and Russians in Alaska -- A war for independence: the San Diego uprising -- First contact: colonizing San Francisco -- Across the Colorado Plateau -- Part II: The continental divide -- A forest transformed: the Hudson's Bay Company and Cumberland House -- The discovery: the Blacks Hills and the Lakota nation -- An invasion of malefactors: Osage Country -- Surrounded: the deep South interior…”

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