Description: An accessible and concise introduction to European expansion overseas during the early modern period. It is the ideal guide to a controversial and essential topic of world history.
Review Quotes: Birmingham has written a concise and lucid introduction to the colonial systems that Portugal and Spain developed during the 15th and 16th centuries in the lands of the Atlantic basin, organized into four chronological phases. R. Fritze, Lamar University, Choice June 2001.