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Empires of the Atlantic World
副标题: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
ISBN: 9780300123999
出版社: Yale University Press
出版年: 2007-4-24
页数: 608
定价: USD 29.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
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.
作者简介
Sir John Huxtable Elliott, FBA (23 June 1930 - ), who normally publishes as J.H. Elliott, is an eminent historian, Regius Professor Emeritus in the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Born in Reading, Berkshire, Elliott was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a lecturer in History at Cambridge University from 1957 to 1967, and was subsequently Professor of History at King's College, London between 1968 and 1973. In 1972 he was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy. Elliott was Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey from 1973 to 1990, and was Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford between 1990 and 1997. He is an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Warwick and an Hon DLitt (Warwick), and a Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
An eminent Hispanist, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award in 1996 for his contributions to the Social Sciences. For his outstanding contributions to the history of Spain and the Spanish Empire in the early modern period, Elliott was awarded the Balzan Prize for History, 1500–1800, in 1999. His studies of the Iberian Peninsula and the Spanish Empire helped the understanding of the problems confronting 16th and 17th century Spain, and the attempts of its leaders to avert its decline.
He is considered, together with Raymond Carr and Angus Mackay, a major figure in developing Spanish historiography.
目录
List of Illustrations vii
List of Maps xi
Introduction. Worlds Overseas xiii
Note on the Text xxi
Part 1. OCCUPATION
Intrusion and Empire:
Hernan Cortes and Christopher Newport; motives and methods 3
Occupying American Space:
Symbolic occupation; physical occupation; peopling the land 29
Confronting American Peoples:
A mosaic of peoples; Christianity and civility; coexistence and segregation 57
Exploiting American Resources:
Plunder and 'improvement'; labour supply; transatlantic economies 88
Part 2. CONSOLIDATION
Crown and Colonists:
The framework of empire; authority and resistance 117
The Ordering of Society:
Hierarchy and control; social antagonism and emerging elites 153
America as Sacred Space:
God's providential design; the church and society; a plurality of creeds 184
Empire and Identity:
Transatlantic communities; creole communities; cultural communities 219
Part 3. EMANCIPATION
Societies on the Move:
Expanding populations; moving frontiers; slave and free 255
War and Reform:
The Seven Years War and imperial defence; the drive for reform; redefining imperial relationships 292
Empires in Crisis:
Ideas in ferment; a community divided; a crisis contained 325
A New World in the Making:
The search for legitimacy; the end ofempire; the emancipation of America: contrasting experiences 369
Epilogue 403
List of Abbreviations 412
Notes 413
Bibliography 481
Index 517
