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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... land seems from the sea than the sea from the land!'1 The Spanish official who crossed the Atlantic in 1573 can hardly have been alone in his sentiments. After anything up to twelve weeks tossing on the high seas, the European emigrants ...
... land seems from the sea than the sea from the land!'1 The Spanish official who crossed the Atlantic in 1573 can hardly have been alone in his sentiments. After anything up to twelve weeks tossing on the high seas, the European emigrants ...
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... lands that he should discover – and this could be done only by defying his superior and securing his own ... land.6 Initially the plan succeeded better than Cortés could have dared to hope, although its final realization was ...
... lands that he should discover – and this could be done only by defying his superior and securing his own ... land.6 Initially the plan succeeded better than Cortés could have dared to hope, although its final realization was ...
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... land of the Nahuas and were now returning to claim their own. He therefore submitted himself and his people to the King of Spain, as their 'natural lord'. This 'voluntary' surrender of sovereignty, which is likely to have been no more ...
... land of the Nahuas and were now returning to claim their own. He therefore submitted himself and his people to the King of Spain, as their 'natural lord'. This 'voluntary' surrender of sovereignty, which is likely to have been no more ...
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... lands elsewhere.30 These people were known as 'planters' rather than 'colonists', a term that does not seem to have come ... land for which he paid rent, and Roldán would have none of this. Subsequent usage upheld his stand. During the ...
... lands elsewhere.30 These people were known as 'planters' rather than 'colonists', a term that does not seem to have come ... land for which he paid rent, and Roldán would have none of this. Subsequent usage upheld his stand. During the ...
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... land. First impressions were hardly encouraging. Approaching Chesapeake Bay, Captain Newport put a party ashore on a cape he christened 'Cape Henry', after the Prince of Wales, only to have them 'assaulted by 5 Salvages, who hurt 2 of ...
... land. First impressions were hardly encouraging. Approaching Chesapeake Bay, Captain Newport put a party ashore on a cape he christened 'Cape Henry', after the Prince of Wales, only to have them 'assaulted by 5 Salvages, who hurt 2 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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