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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... European emigrants – more than 1.5 million of them between 1500 and 1780s2 – who stumbled uncertainly onto American soil must have felt in the first instance an overwhelming sense of relief. 'We were sure', wrote María Díaz from Mexico ...
... European emigrants – more than 1.5 million of them between 1500 and 1780s2 – who stumbled uncertainly onto American soil must have felt in the first instance an overwhelming sense of relief. 'We were sure', wrote María Díaz from Mexico ...
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... European observers might explain the differences by reference to a process of degeneration that was allegedly ... Europe struck off in the course of the revolution which brought the west into the modern world'. Having spun off at a given ...
... European observers might explain the differences by reference to a process of degeneration that was allegedly ... Europe struck off in the course of the revolution which brought the west into the modern world'. Having spun off at a given ...
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... European migration to the New World.16 Implicitly or explicitly such discussions involve an element of comparison, and comparative history may prove a useful device for helping to reassemble the fragmented history of the Americas into a ...
... European migration to the New World.16 Implicitly or explicitly such discussions involve an element of comparison, and comparative history may prove a useful device for helping to reassemble the fragmented history of the Americas into a ...
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... Europeans arrived, they found an America peopled in different ways, and at very different levels of density. Acts of war and settlement involved European intrusions into the space of existing indigenous societies; and even if Europeans ...
... Europeans arrived, they found an America peopled in different ways, and at very different levels of density. Acts of war and settlement involved European intrusions into the space of existing indigenous societies; and even if Europeans ...
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... European peoples, and hope to have been able to suggest why, at particular times and in particular places, the ... Europe, and take a harder look at Spain's interaction with its overseas possessions. As I had by then spent almost ...
... European peoples, and hope to have been able to suggest why, at particular times and in particular places, the ... Europe, and take a harder look at Spain's interaction with its overseas possessions. As I had by then spent almost ...
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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