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Item Details
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EMPIRES OF THE ATLANTIC WORLD
BRITAIN AND SPAIN IN AMERICA 1492-1830 |
| By: |
John H. Elliott |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£35.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300114311 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300114317 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
7 April, 2006 |
| Pages: |
560 |
| Description: |
Compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus' arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. This work offers history, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed, in North and South America. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
40-50in 2 plate sections half colour |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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