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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... 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 from the dead.'4 Differences of ...
... 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 from the dead.'4 Differences of ...
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... minister. Cortés's expeditionary force now reconstituted itself as a formal community, by incorporating itself on 28 June 1519 as a town, to be known as Villa Rica de Vera Cruz, which the Spaniards promptly started to lay out and build ...
... minister. Cortés's expeditionary force now reconstituted itself as a formal community, by incorporating itself on 28 June 1519 as a town, to be known as Villa Rica de Vera Cruz, which the Spaniards promptly started to lay out and build ...
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... minister to the needs of rapidly expanding towns. In accordance with metropolitan usage, however, there remained strict limitations on land-ownership in Spain's American possessions. The possession of land was conditional on its ...
... minister to the needs of rapidly expanding towns. In accordance with metropolitan usage, however, there remained strict limitations on land-ownership in Spain's American possessions. The possession of land was conditional on its ...
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... minister Thomas Welde in 1632 to his former parishioners in Tarling, 'I find three great blessings, peace, plenty, and health in a comfortable measure ...'147 The message was attractive, and when it could be presented as promoting God's ...
... minister Thomas Welde in 1632 to his former parishioners in Tarling, 'I find three great blessings, peace, plenty, and health in a comfortable measure ...'147 The message was attractive, and when it could be presented as promoting God's ...
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... ministers. Among British, as among Spanish, emigrants the motives for emigration were naturally mixed, and the cost of the journey – described in 1630 as 'wondrous dear'151 – was a deterrent in the British Isles, just as it was in Spain ...
... ministers. Among British, as among Spanish, emigrants the motives for emigration were naturally mixed, and the cost of the journey – described in 1630 as 'wondrous dear'151 – was a deterrent in the British Isles, just as it was in Spain ...
Contenido
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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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