Empires of the Atlantic World Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

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...

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Main Author: Elliott, John Huxtable
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press 15.04.2006
Edition:1
Subjects:
America
America > Colonization
America > History > To 1810
Americas
Atlantic Ocean Region
British
British > Atlantic Ocean Region > History
Colonial history
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Colonies
Colonization
Empires
Great Britain
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History
History
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Spain
Spain > Colonies > America > History
Spaniards
Spaniards > Atlantic Ocean Region > History
To 1810
U.S.A
United Kingdom
United States
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
ISBN:0300114311, 9780300114317
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Summary: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.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-516) and index
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ISBN:0300114311
9780300114317
DOI:10.12987/9780300133554