Empires of the Atlantic world [electronic resource] : Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 / J.H. Elliott.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 546 p., [32] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.)ISBN:- 9780300133554 (electronic bk.)
- 0300133553 (electronic bk.)
- British -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- Spaniards -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
- HISTORY
- America -- History -- To 1810
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History
- Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History
- America -- Colonization
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- ამერიკა-- კოლონიალიზმი ამერიკაში
- 970/.02 22
- E18.82 .E44 2006eb
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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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