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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... least the fact of deviation was not in itself in dispute. Nature as well as nurture had formed the new colonial worlds. In practice, the colonization of the Americas, like all colonization, consisted of a continuous interplay between ...
... least the fact of deviation was not in itself in dispute. Nature as well as nurture had formed the new colonial worlds. In practice, the colonization of the Americas, like all colonization, consisted of a continuous interplay between ...
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... likely to defy the efforts of any individual historian. None the less, a more limited undertaking, which is confined, like the present one, to two European empires in the Americas, may suggest at least something of the possibilities, and.
... likely to defy the efforts of any individual historian. None the less, a more limited undertaking, which is confined, like the present one, to two European empires in the Americas, may suggest at least something of the possibilities, and.
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... least something of the possibilities, and the problems, inherent in a comparative approach. In reality, even a comparison reduced to two empires proves to be far from straightforward. 'British America' and, still more, 'Spanish America ...
... least something of the possibilities, and the problems, inherent in a comparative approach. In reality, even a comparison reduced to two empires proves to be far from straightforward. 'British America' and, still more, 'Spanish America ...
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... , had been elected Holy Roman Emperor, under the name of Charles V, and was now, at least nominally, the most powerful sovereign in Renaissance Europe. The problem of mutual comprehension made itself felt immediately. Cortés,
... , had been elected Holy Roman Emperor, under the name of Charles V, and was now, at least nominally, the most powerful sovereign in Renaissance Europe. The problem of mutual comprehension made itself felt immediately. Cortés,
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... least, and in short time after obtained not only the quiet possession of the said city, but also of his whole Empire.'13 The taking of possession had hardly been 'short' or 'quiet', but Hakluyt's message was clear enough. A few ...
... least, and in short time after obtained not only the quiet possession of the said city, but also of his whole Empire.'13 The taking of possession had hardly been 'short' or 'quiet', but Hakluyt's message was clear enough. A few ...
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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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