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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... French and Dutch colonies, are all distinguishable even between the tropics.'7 Nature, as he saw it, could never extinguish nurture. Yet contemporaries with firsthand experience of the new colonial societies in process of formation on ...
... French and Dutch colonies, are all distinguishable even between the tropics.'7 Nature, as he saw it, could never extinguish nurture. Yet contemporaries with firsthand experience of the new colonial societies in process of formation on ...
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... French. In the 1550s, when Mary Tudor's marriage made Charles's son and heir, Philip, for a brief time King of England, Richard Eden used his translation into English of the first three books of Peter Martyr's Decades of the New World ...
... French. In the 1550s, when Mary Tudor's marriage made Charles's son and heir, Philip, for a brief time King of England, Richard Eden used his translation into English of the first three books of Peter Martyr's Decades of the New World ...
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... French Huguenots.37 Five years later, with Menéndez's blessing, a party of eight Jesuits set out from Santa Elena under the leadership of Father Juan Bautista de Segura, the vice-provincial of the Jesuit Order in Florida. They had as ...
... French Huguenots.37 Five years later, with Menéndez's blessing, a party of eight Jesuits set out from Santa Elena under the leadership of Father Juan Bautista de Segura, the vice-provincial of the Jesuit Order in Florida. They had as ...
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... French designs on the territory and took the first steps towards bringing it under more effective control. By contrast, the Spaniards began constructing for themselves, from the very early stages of their movement overseas, something ...
... French designs on the territory and took the first steps towards bringing it under more effective control. By contrast, the Spaniards began constructing for themselves, from the very early stages of their movement overseas, something ...
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... French and defend Christendom from the Turk – so its dependence on the assets of empire grew. The discovery in 1545 of the silver mountain of Potosí in the high Andes, followed the next year by that of important silver deposits at ...
... French and defend Christendom from the Turk – so its dependence on the assets of empire grew. The discovery in 1545 of the silver mountain of Potosí in the high Andes, followed the next year by that of important silver deposits at ...
Contenido
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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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