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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... early colonists in New England expressed it, to secure a 'competencie'5 – but they all faced the same challenge of moving from the known to the unknown, and of coming to terms with an alien environment that would demand of them numerous ...
... early colonists in New England expressed it, to secure a 'competencie'5 – but they all faced the same challenge of moving from the known to the unknown, and of coming to terms with an alien environment that would demand of them numerous ...
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... Early Modern Europe.76 Where the Portuguese pointed the way, others followed. The kings of Castile, in particular, could not afford to let their Portuguese cousins steal a march on them. The Castilian conquest and occupation of the ...
... Early Modern Europe.76 Where the Portuguese pointed the way, others followed. The kings of Castile, in particular, could not afford to let their Portuguese cousins steal a march on them. The Castilian conquest and occupation of the ...
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... early settlers who displayed marked entrepreneurial characteristics. As new waves of Spanish immigrants moved across the continent in the aftermath of the conquest of Mexico and Peru, it became clear that the easiest forms of wealth ...
... early settlers who displayed marked entrepreneurial characteristics. As new waves of Spanish immigrants moved across the continent in the aftermath of the conquest of Mexico and Peru, it became clear that the easiest forms of wealth ...
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... early 1580s, Juan de Mariana summed up the increasingly ambivalent feelings of his generation towards the ... earliest stages of this debate, the alleged benefits to Spain of the silver of the Indies were the subject of particularly ...
... early 1580s, Juan de Mariana summed up the increasingly ambivalent feelings of his generation towards the ... earliest stages of this debate, the alleged benefits to Spain of the silver of the Indies were the subject of particularly ...
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... early British settlements forced on the settlers a developmental as against an essentially exploitative rationale; and this in turn gave additional weight to those qualities of selfreliance, hard work and entrepreneurship that were ...
... early British settlements forced on the settlers a developmental as against an essentially exploitative rationale; and this in turn gave additional weight to those qualities of selfreliance, hard work and entrepreneurship that were ...
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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