Acknowledgements; Contents; Editors and Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction to Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens ; Bibliography; Part I Demonstration of Power; Chapter 2 Mary I, Mary of Guise and the Strong Hand of the Scots: Marian Policy in Ulster and Anglo-Scottish Diplomacy, 1553-1558 ; The Families of Ulster and Early Marian Policy Toward the Scots in Ulster; Mary of Guise, the Earl of Argyll and Anglo-Scottish Diplomacy; Anti-Scottish Policy Under Sussex; Conclusion; Bibliography

Chapter 3 Catherine de Medici and Huguenot Colonization, 1560-1567 Catherine's Religious Policy During Her Regency (1560-1563); Huguenot Colonization in La Florida (1562-1565); Catherine's Overture to the Ottomans (1566); Conclusion (1567, 1572); Bibliography; Chapter 4 Isabel Clara Eugenia, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands: Trade, Politics, and Warfare, Ruling like a King 1621-1633 ; Isabel's Involvement in Trade; Isabel & European Politics: Representative of Spain, Counsel, and Involvement; Isabel & Warfare I: Finance & Strategy

Isabel & Warfare II: Responsibility, Authority, and Martial IdentityConclusion; Bibliography; Part II Diplomatic Strategies; Chapter 5 Caterina Cornaro and the Colonization of Cyprus ; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Trade and Piracy: The Role of a Potential Queen Consort in the 1620s ; Abbreviations; James I's Dynastic Policies in England and Spain; The Treaty of London; Mary I and Philip of Spain; Turks and Pirates; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 7 "The Princesses' Representative" or Renegade Entrepreneur? Marie Petit, the Silk Trade, and Franco-Persian Diplomacy ; Prologue

Petit, Silk Merchants, and Missionaries in PersiaPetit, Vakhtang VI and the Politics of Identity at the Edge of Empire; Conclusion; Bibliography; Part III Exotic Encounters; Chapter 8 "I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys": Turquoise, Queenship‚ and the Exotic ; Shylock's Ring; The Value of Turquoise; The Suggestive and Curative Powers of Turquoise; Turquoise as Exotic; Queens and Turquoise; Bibliography; Chapter 9 A Vision on Queen Elizabeth's Role in Colonizing America: Stephen Parmenius's De Navigatione (1582) ; Stephen Parmenius of Buda

Elizabethan Views on Explorations and ColonizationThe Vision of a Golden Age; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 10 Captains, Kings, Queens: Politics, Piracy, and the Sea in Middleton's The Phoenix (c.1603-04) ; Understanding Early Modern Sea Captains; Sex, Captains, and the Politics of Isolation; Bibliography; Index