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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... church and society; a plurality of creeds 8. Empire and Identity Transatlantic communities; creole communities; cultural communities Part 3. Emancipation 9. Societies on the Move Expanding populations; moving frontiers; slave and free ...
... church and society; a plurality of creeds 8. Empire and Identity Transatlantic communities; creole communities; cultural communities Part 3. Emancipation 9. Societies on the Move Expanding populations; moving frontiers; slave and free ...
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... Church of Our Lady of Ocotlán, Tlaxcala, Mexico (c. 1760). Photo Dagli Orti/Art Archive, London. 26 Interior of Christ Church, Philadelphia (1727–44). Courtesy of James D. Kornwolf. 27 Cristóbal de Villalpando, Joseph Claims Benjamin as ...
... Church of Our Lady of Ocotlán, Tlaxcala, Mexico (c. 1760). Photo Dagli Orti/Art Archive, London. 26 Interior of Christ Church, Philadelphia (1727–44). Courtesy of James D. Kornwolf. 27 Cristóbal de Villalpando, Joseph Claims Benjamin as ...
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... church had much less reason than their Spanish counterparts to display a close interest in the well-being of the indigenous population in the newly settled lands. As a result of this relatively low level of royal and ecclesiastical ...
... church had much less reason than their Spanish counterparts to display a close interest in the well-being of the indigenous population in the newly settled lands. As a result of this relatively low level of royal and ecclesiastical ...
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... church and civic buildings, and a regular pattern of streets on the grid-iron plan, which Ovando had adopted when he rebuilt Santo Domingo after the cyclone of 1502. There were good European precedents for this grid-iron or chequer ...
... church and civic buildings, and a regular pattern of streets on the grid-iron plan, which Ovando had adopted when he rebuilt Santo Domingo after the cyclone of 1502. There were good European precedents for this grid-iron or chequer ...
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... church formed a place of assembly, and each village would have its commons. As in Spanish towns, families were allocated a house lot, along with parcels of land for cultivation outside the residential centre. The allocation of land was ...
... church formed a place of assembly, and each village would have its commons. As in Spanish towns, families were allocated a house lot, along with parcels of land for cultivation outside the residential centre. The allocation of land was ...
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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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