| Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 Reprint Edition Contributor(s): Elliott, J. H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300253397 ISBN-13: 9780300253399 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal - History | North American |
| Dewey: 970.02 |
| LCCN: 2019300709 |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.70 lbs) 608 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - Modern - Cultural Region - Spanish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |