Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830Yale University Press, 2006 M01 1 - 608 páginas This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America.Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires’ processes of colonization, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas. |
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... Cortés and Christopher Newport; motives and methods 2. Occupying American Space Symbolic occupation; physical occupation; peopling the land 3. Confronting American Peoples A mosaic of peoples; Christianity and civility; coexistence and ...
... Cortés and Christopher Newport; motives and methods 2. Occupying American Space Symbolic occupation; physical occupation; peopling the land 3. Confronting American Peoples A mosaic of peoples; Christianity and civility; coexistence and ...
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Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 J. H. Elliott. Map 1. The Peoples of America, 1492. CHAPTER 1 Intrusion and Empire Hernán Cortés and Christopher Newport. Based on Pierre Chaunu, L'Amérique et les Amériques (Paris 1964), map. 3.
Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 J. H. Elliott. Map 1. The Peoples of America, 1492. CHAPTER 1 Intrusion and Empire Hernán Cortés and Christopher Newport. Based on Pierre Chaunu, L'Amérique et les Amériques (Paris 1964), map. 3.
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... Cortés and Christopher Newport A shrewd notary from Extremadura, turned colonist and adventurer, and a one-armed ex-privateer from Limehouse, in the county of Middlesex. Eighty-seven years separate the expeditions, led by Hernán Cortés ...
... Cortés and Christopher Newport A shrewd notary from Extremadura, turned colonist and adventurer, and a one-armed ex-privateer from Limehouse, in the county of Middlesex. Eighty-seven years separate the expeditions, led by Hernán Cortés ...
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... Cortés and his confidants had other ideas. Cortés's intention from the first had been to poblar – to settle any lands that he should discover – and this could be done only by defying his superior and securing his own authorization from ...
... Cortés and his confidants had other ideas. Cortés's intention from the first had been to poblar – to settle any lands that he should discover – and this could be done only by defying his superior and securing his own authorization from ...
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... Cortés, in Gómara's words, 'dismounted and approached Montezuma to embrace him in the Spanish fashion, but was prevented by those who were supporting him, for it was a sin to touch him'. Taking off a necklace of pearls and cut glass ...
... Cortés, in Gómara's words, 'dismounted and approached Montezuma to embrace him in the Spanish fashion, but was prevented by those who were supporting him, for it was a sin to touch him'. Taking off a necklace of pearls and cut glass ...
Contenido
xxvi | |
lii | |
lxxxi | |
cvii | |
The Ordering of Society | cxli |
America as Sacred Space | clxx |
Societies on the Move | ccxxxiv |
War and Reform | i |
Empires in Crisis | xiii |
A New World in the Making | 2 |
Epilogue | 33 |
Bibliography | 1994 |
Index | 2040 |
Empire and Identity | ccii |
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