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Empires of the Atlantic world : Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830

J. H. Elliott (Author)
"Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires' processes of colonisation, 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."--Jacket
eBook, English, 2006
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2006
History
1 online resource (xx, 546 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
9780300133554, 9786611722746, 9781281722744, 0300133553, 6611722742, 128172274X
145733829
Introduction: Worlds overseas
Intrusion and empire. Hernán Cortés and Christopher Newton ; Motives and methods
Occupying American space. Symbolic occupation ; Physical occupation ; Peopling the land
Confronting American peoples. A mosaic of peoples ; Christianity and civility ; Coexistence and segregation
Exploring American resources. Plunder and 'improvement' ; Labor supply ; Transatlantic economies
Crown and colonists. The framework of empire ; Authority and resistance
The ordering of society. Hierarchy and control ; Social antagonism and emerging elites
America as sacred space. God's providential design ; The church and society ; A plurality of creeds
Empire and identity. Transatlantic communities ; Creole communities ; Cultural communities
Societies on the move. Expanding populations ; Moving frontiers ; Slave and free
War and reform. The Seven Years War and imperial defence ; The drive for reform ; Redefining imperial relationships
Empires in crisis. Ideas in ferment ; A community divided ; A crisis contained
A new world in the making. The search for legitimacy ; The end of empire ; The emancipation of America ; Contrasting experiences
English