Early Modern Expansion and the Politicization of Oceanic SpaceFootnote^*

* This essay benefited from the comments of the participants at the Oceans Connect workshop at Duke University and from the assessments of two anonymous reviewers. The John Carter Brown Library, where I was a fellow, provided a collegial environment for completing the revisions.

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