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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... of Pennsylvania in America (London, 1683). Engraving. Courtesy of James D. Kornwolf. 10 Samuel Copen, A Prospect of Bridge Town in Barbados (London, 1695). Engraving – separate print in two sheets. Courtesy of the John Carter.
... of Pennsylvania in America (London, 1683). Engraving. Courtesy of James D. Kornwolf. 10 Samuel Copen, A Prospect of Bridge Town in Barbados (London, 1695). Engraving – separate print in two sheets. Courtesy of the John Carter.
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... Town Harbour (c. 1740). Watercolour. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. 37 Anon., The Old Plantation, South Carolina (c. 1800). Watercolour. Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg. 38 Henry Dawkins, A North-West Prospect ...
... Town Harbour (c. 1740). Watercolour. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. 37 Anon., The Old Plantation, South Carolina (c. 1800). Watercolour. Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg. 38 Henry Dawkins, A North-West Prospect ...
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... ). Principal Cities and Towns of British and Spanish America, c. 1700 The Caribbean, c. 1700. British America, 1763. Spain's American Empire, End of the Eighteenth Century. Introduction. Worlds Overseas 'Oh, how much better the land seems.
... ). Principal Cities and Towns of British and Spanish America, c. 1700 The Caribbean, c. 1700. British America, 1763. Spain's American Empire, End of the Eighteenth Century. Introduction. Worlds Overseas 'Oh, how much better the land seems.
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... town, to be known as Villa Rica de Vera Cruz, which the Spaniards promptly started to lay out and build. The new municipality, acting in the name of the king in place of his 'tyrannical' governor of Cuba, whose authority it rejected ...
... town, to be known as Villa Rica de Vera Cruz, which the Spaniards promptly started to lay out and build. The new municipality, acting in the name of the king in place of his 'tyrannical' governor of Cuba, whose authority it rejected ...
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... town called Powhatan, consisting of some 12 houses pleasantly seated on a hill'. Beyond this were falls, which made the river unnavigable for their boat. On one of the 'little islets at the mouth of the falls', Newport 'set up a cross ...
... town called Powhatan, consisting of some 12 houses pleasantly seated on a hill'. Beyond this were falls, which made the river unnavigable for their boat. On one of the 'little islets at the mouth of the falls', Newport 'set up a cross ...
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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