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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... Royal Collection © 2005 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 29 Miguel Cabrera, Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1750). Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional de Historia, México D.F. Photo Dagli Orti (A)/Art Archive, London. 30 Peter Pelham ...
... Royal Collection © 2005 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 29 Miguel Cabrera, Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1750). Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional de Historia, México D.F. Photo Dagli Orti (A)/Art Archive, London. 30 Peter Pelham ...
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... royal army. By this manoeuvre, Cortés was freed from his obligations to the 'tyrant'Velázquez. Thereafter, following the king's best interests, he could lead his men inland to conquer the empire of Montezuma, and transform nominal ...
... royal army. By this manoeuvre, Cortés was freed from his obligations to the 'tyrant'Velázquez. Thereafter, following the king's best interests, he could lead his men inland to conquer the empire of Montezuma, and transform nominal ...
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... royal council with regulatory powers gave the Company the assurance of state backing for its enterprise.18 Where Cortés, therefore, was nominally serving under the orders of the royal governor of Cuba, from whom he broke free at the ...
... royal council with regulatory powers gave the Company the assurance of state backing for its enterprise.18 Where Cortés, therefore, was nominally serving under the orders of the royal governor of Cuba, from whom he broke free at the ...
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... royal officials, returned to Spain in 1528 to put his case to the Emperor, who confirmed him as captain-general, but not governor of New Spain. He returned there in 1530, but after costly and exhausting expeditions to the Pacific coast ...
... royal officials, returned to Spain in 1528 to put his case to the Emperor, who confirmed him as captain-general, but not governor of New Spain. He returned there in 1530, but after costly and exhausting expeditions to the Pacific coast ...
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... royal fifth before distributing any booty among his men.84 But Cortés showed himself to be something more than a caudillo in the traditional mould. Unlike Pedrarias Dávila, who as governor of Darien from 1513 murdered and massacred his ...
... royal fifth before distributing any booty among his men.84 But Cortés showed himself to be something more than a caudillo in the traditional mould. Unlike Pedrarias Dávila, who as governor of Darien from 1513 murdered and massacred his ...
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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