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At every stage of European overseas expansion there were one or more colonial powers which overshadowed the rest. In the modern period these were Britainand France; before 1815 Spain and Portugal. Their primacy lay not only in the fact that they were the discoverers, but that they worked out four of the five models for effective colonization which were typical of the first colonial empires and were copied by other colonizing powers.
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Fieldhouse, D.K. (1965). The Spanish and Portuguese Empires in America. In: The Colonial Empires. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06338-3_2
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