Empires of the Atlantic world [[electronic resource] ] : Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 / / J.H. Elliott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452202303321
• Autore: Elliott John Huxtable
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-281-72274-X; 9786611722746; 0-300-13355-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (560 p.)
• Disciplina: 970/.02
• Soggetti: British - Atlantic Ocean Region - History; Spaniards - Atlantic Ocean Region - History; Electronic books.; America History To 1810; Great Britain Colonies America History; Spain Colonies America History; America Colonization; United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-516) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Introduction. Worlds Overseas -- Note On The Text -- Map -- Chapter 1. Intrusion And Empire -- Chapter 2. Occupying American Space -- Chapter 3. Confronting American Peoples -- Chapter 5. Crown And Colonists -- Chapter 6. The Ordering Of Society -- Chapter 7. America As Sacred Space -- Chapter 8 Empire And Identity -- Chapter 9. Societies On The Move -- Chapter 10. War And Reform -- Chapter 11. Empires In Crisis -- Chapter 12. A New World In The Making -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.