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Empires of the Atlantic world : Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 /
"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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2006]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.