TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elliott,J.H.
TI  - Empires of the Atlantic world: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 
SN  - 9780300133554 (electronic bk.)
AV  - E18.82 .E44 2006eb
U1  - 970/.02 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - British
KW  - Atlantic Ocean Region
KW  - History
KW  - Spaniards
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - America
KW  - To 1810
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Spain
KW  - Colonization
KW  - United States
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - ამერიკა--
KW  - კოლონიალიზმი ამერიკაში
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-516) and index; 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
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