Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History (2010). Chapters 5–7of this recent work describe and compare the empires of the early modern world.
Jorge Canizares-
Alfred W. Crosby, The Columbian Voyages, the Columbian Exchange, and Their Historians (1987). A brief and classic account of changing understandings of Columbus and his global impact.
John Kicza, Resilient Cultures: America’s Native Peoples Confront European Colonization, 1500–1800 (2003). An account of European colonization in the Americas that casts the native peoples as active agents rather than passive victims.
Charles C. Mann, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (2011). A global account of the Columbian exchange that presents contemporary scholarship in a very accessible fashion.
Peter Perdue, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (2005). Describes how China became an empire as it incorporated the non-
Willard Sutherland, Taming the Wild Fields: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe (2004). An up-
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