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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... Indians,47 although in the early years of settlement it seemed wise to cover all eventualities. In a sermon preached before the Virginia Company in 1610 William Crashaw advanced a range of arguments to justify the Virginia enterprise ...
... Indians,47 although in the early years of settlement it seemed wise to cover all eventualities. In a sermon preached before the Virginia Company in 1610 William Crashaw advanced a range of arguments to justify the Virginia enterprise ...
Página xx
... Indian vassals. It was incumbent on the royal conscience to prevent unrestricted exploitation of the indigenous population ... Indians were a source of tribute and of labour, and the crown was determined to have its share of both. As it ...
... Indian vassals. It was incumbent on the royal conscience to prevent unrestricted exploitation of the indigenous population ... Indians were a source of tribute and of labour, and the crown was determined to have its share of both. As it ...
Página xxxv
... Indians clear evidence of the determination of the conquerors to put down roots and stay, just as it also offered clear evidence to the conquerors themselves that the crown wanted them to abandon their restless ways and establish a ...
... Indians clear evidence of the determination of the conquerors to put down roots and stay, just as it also offered clear evidence to the conquerors themselves that the crown wanted them to abandon their restless ways and establish a ...
Página xxxvi
... Indians constituted rewards for services, specified what were to be the essential characteristics of the encomienda in its initial stages – the obligation of the Indians to perform labour services for those who held them in deposit, and ...
... Indians constituted rewards for services, specified what were to be the essential characteristics of the encomienda in its initial stages – the obligation of the Indians to perform labour services for those who held them in deposit, and ...
Página xxxviii
... Indians should perform weekly labour services for the colonists.82 The Indians, it transpired, were not prepared to co-operate. There remained the land, and once the rich potential of tobacco planting became apparent, the attractions of ...
... Indians should perform weekly labour services for the colonists.82 The Indians, it transpired, were not prepared to co-operate. There remained the land, and once the rich potential of tobacco planting became apparent, the attractions of ...
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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