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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... United States—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775. I. Title. E18.82.E44 2006 970'.02—dc22 2005034842 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-300-12399-9 (pbk) Published with assistance from ...
... United States—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775. I. Title. E18.82.E44 2006 970'.02—dc22 2005034842 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-300-12399-9 (pbk) Published with assistance from ...
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... United States, there seemed to me a certain logic in looking at colonial Spanish America in a context that would span the Atlantic and allow me to draw parallels between the American experiences of Spaniards and Britons. I am deeply ...
... United States, there seemed to me a certain logic in looking at colonial Spanish America in a context that would span the Atlantic and allow me to draw parallels between the American experiences of Spaniards and Britons. I am deeply ...
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... united Spain created by the dynastic union of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 bore the imprint of their unique authority. Their restoration of order in the peninsula after years of civil war and anarchy, and the ...
... united Spain created by the dynastic union of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 bore the imprint of their unique authority. Their restoration of order in the peninsula after years of civil war and anarchy, and the ...
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... united under the rule of James VI and I, was a composite monarchy. In common with its continental counterparts the British composite monarchy of the early Stuarts – 'our whole Monarchie' – consisted of different realms and territories ...
... united under the rule of James VI and I, was a composite monarchy. In common with its continental counterparts the British composite monarchy of the early Stuarts – 'our whole Monarchie' – consisted of different realms and territories ...
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... united with, and incorporated into, the crown of Castile and León'.15 Faced with the options of maintaining the newly acquired transatlantic possessions – still only a few islands – as a separate entity or incorporating them into one or ...
... united with, and incorporated into, the crown of Castile and León'.15 Faced with the options of maintaining the newly acquired transatlantic possessions – still only a few islands – as a separate entity or incorporating them into one or ...
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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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