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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... later Thomas Shepard, a Puritan minister emigrating to New England, wrote after surviving a tempest: 'This deliverance was so great that I then did think if ever the Lord did bring me to shore again I should live like one come and risen ...
... later Thomas Shepard, a Puritan minister emigrating to New England, wrote after surviving a tempest: 'This deliverance was so great that I then did think if ever the Lord did bring me to shore again I should live like one come and risen ...
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... later historians – Protestantism and modernity were not invariably synonymous.1 After reconnoitring the coastline of Yucatán, Cortés, whose ships were lying off the island which the Spaniards called San Juan de Ulúa, set off in his ...
... later historians – Protestantism and modernity were not invariably synonymous.1 After reconnoitring the coastline of Yucatán, Cortés, whose ships were lying off the island which the Spaniards called San Juan de Ulúa, set off in his ...
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... later by his secretary and chaplain, Francisco López de Gómara, 'because of the pressure of the crowds that came out to see them'. As they drew closer, they found '4,000 gentlemen of the court ... waiting to receive them', until finally ...
... later by his secretary and chaplain, Francisco López de Gómara, 'because of the pressure of the crowds that came out to see them'. As they drew closer, they found '4,000 gentlemen of the court ... waiting to receive them', until finally ...
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... later, Richard Hakluyt the younger, who had emerged as the principal promoter and propagandist of English overseas empire, reminded the readers of his Principall Navigations how 'Hernando Cortés, being also but a private gentleman of ...
... later, Richard Hakluyt the younger, who had emerged as the principal promoter and propagandist of English overseas empire, reminded the readers of his Principall Navigations how 'Hernando Cortés, being also but a private gentleman of ...
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... of Castile, and they were inhabited, not by colonos, but by conquerors (conquistadores) and their descendants, and by pobladores, or settlers, the name given to all later arrivals. The English, by contrast, were always 'planters',
... of Castile, and they were inhabited, not by colonos, but by conquerors (conquistadores) and their descendants, and by pobladores, or settlers, the name given to all later arrivals. The English, by contrast, were always 'planters',
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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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