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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... prove a useful device for helping to reassemble the fragmented history of the Americas into a new and more coherent pattern. An outsider to American history, the great classical historian Sir Ronald Syme observed in a brief comparative ...
... prove a useful device for helping to reassemble the fragmented history of the Americas into a new and more coherent pattern. An outsider to American history, the great classical historian Sir Ronald Syme observed in a brief comparative ...
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... prove after all to be not as close as they look at first sight; differences are discovered which at first lay concealed. Comparison is therefore a constantly fluctuating process, which may well seem on closer inspection to offer less ...
... prove after all to be not as close as they look at first sight; differences are discovered which at first lay concealed. Comparison is therefore a constantly fluctuating process, which may well seem on closer inspection to offer less ...
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... proved considerably less faithful to his instructions. The governor of Cuba had specifically ordered that the expedition was to be an expedition Intrusion and Empire Hernán Cortés and Christopher Newport; motives and methods.
... proved considerably less faithful to his instructions. The governor of Cuba had specifically ordered that the expedition was to be an expedition Intrusion and Empire Hernán Cortés and Christopher Newport; motives and methods.
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... proved to be only limited scope for the leaders of the new colony to follow Cortés's example and play off one tribal grouping against another. In June 1607, when Newport sailed for England to fetch supplies for the hungry and disease ...
... proved to be only limited scope for the leaders of the new colony to follow Cortés's example and play off one tribal grouping against another. In June 1607, when Newport sailed for England to fetch supplies for the hungry and disease ...
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... prove a source of abundant gold; and its Taíno population, which the first Spanish settlers had seen as vassals and as a potential labour force, rapidly succumbed to European diseases and became extinct before their eyes.81 The same proved ...
... prove a source of abundant gold; and its Taíno population, which the first Spanish settlers had seen as vassals and as a potential labour force, rapidly succumbed to European diseases and became extinct before their eyes.81 The same proved ...
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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