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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Página xxxv
... living, and offered an additional inducement to the construction in Spain's new American possessions of an essentially urban civilization.60 The town, indeed, was to become the basis for Spanish dominion in America. Occasionally it ...
... living, and offered an additional inducement to the construction in Spain's new American possessions of an essentially urban civilization.60 The town, indeed, was to become the basis for Spanish dominion in America. Occasionally it ...
Página xxxvi
... living on their estates. In spite of these constraints, their privileged status, their social influence, and the income provided by their encomiendas would enable the shrewder among them to purchase large tracts of land which their ...
... living on their estates. In spite of these constraints, their privileged status, their social influence, and the income provided by their encomiendas would enable the shrewder among them to purchase large tracts of land which their ...
Página xxxviii
... English settlements, where a different pattern of colonization developed during the course of the seventeenth century. Whereas communal living was in effect abandoned in Virginia after the collapse of the Jamestown experiment, the.
... English settlements, where a different pattern of colonization developed during the course of the seventeenth century. Whereas communal living was in effect abandoned in Virginia after the collapse of the Jamestown experiment, the.
Página xlii
... living, and the weight of royal authority in backing up this predilection with legislation and enforcement, did something to tie the colonists to place, but it seemed to successive viceroys of New Spain and Peru that they were fighting ...
... living, and the weight of royal authority in backing up this predilection with legislation and enforcement, did something to tie the colonists to place, but it seemed to successive viceroys of New Spain and Peru that they were fighting ...
Página xliii
... living in a 'Wildernesse' and surrounded by 'Heathen'.117 But the image of the wilderness was ambiguous. On the one hand it implied danger and darkness – a land where Satan ruled. But on the other it implied a place of retreat and ...
... living in a 'Wildernesse' and surrounded by 'Heathen'.117 But the image of the wilderness was ambiguous. On the one hand it implied danger and darkness – a land where Satan ruled. But on the other it implied a place of retreat and ...
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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