Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens (Paperback)

1. Introduction I. Demonstration of Power. 2. Mary I, Mary of Guise and the Strong Hand of the Scots: Marian Policy in Ulster and Anglo-Scottish Diplomacy, 1553-1558 3. Catherine de Medici and Huguenot Colonization, 1560-1567 4. Isabel Clara Eugenia, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands: Trade, Politics, & Warfare, Ruling like a King, 1621-1633 II. Diplomatic Strategies 5. Caterina Cornaro and the Colonization of Cyprus 6. Trade and Piracy: The Role of a Potential Queen Consort in the 1620s 7. "The Princesses' Representative" or Renegade Entrepreneur? Marie Petit, the Silk Trade, and Franco-Persian Diplomacy III. Exotic Encounters 8. "I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys": Turquoise, Queenship, and the Exotic 9. A Vision on Queen Elizabeth's Role in Colonizing America: Stephen Parmenius's De Navigatione (1582) 10. Captains, Kings, Queens: Politics, Piracy, and the Sea in Middleton's The Phoenix (c. 1603-04)