Focusing on Europe's impact on the world, Jeremy Black analyses European attitudes, exploration, trade and acquisition of knowledge. Europe and the World, 1650-1830 is an important thematic study of the first age of globalisation. 'Once again Jeremy Black has placed readers in his debt. He has produced a work of concision, yet packed with much information, covering a relatively neglected phase of European expansion... An enviable mastery of reading and of material is supported by very valuable examples.' - Eric Boston, History, July 2003