Which of the following statements best reflects European motivations for overseas expansion at the end of the fifteenth century?

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Review: "Clinging to the Coast and Venturing beyond Known Shores": Recent Works on Renaissance Overseas Expansion and Colonization

Reviewed Works: Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World by Jerry Brotton; The Origins of Empire by Nicholas Canny; The Discovery and Conquest of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León, Alejandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook; Christopher Columbus and His Family: The Genoese and Ligurian Documents by John Dotson, Aldo Agosto; Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate by Harry Kelsey; Metaphors of Dispossession: American Beginnings and the Translation of of Empire, 1422-1637 by Gesa Mackenthum; The Medieval Expansion of Europe by J. R. S. Phillips; Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers: The Illusion of Power in Sixteenth by Rafael Varón Gabai; Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism by Sheldon Watts; The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters, 1570-1750 by Glyndwr Williams

Review by: John E. Kicza

Renaissance Quarterly

Vol. 53, No. 2 (Summer, 2000)

, pp. 542-555 (14 pages)

Published By: Cambridge University Press

https://doi.org/10.2307/2901879

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2901879

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