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Empires of the Atlantic world : Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 /

Main Author: Elliott, J. H. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
British > History. > Atlantic Ocean Region
Spaniards > History. > Atlantic Ocean Region
America > Colonization.
America > History > To 1810.
British > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History.
Spain > Colonies > America > History.
Spaniards > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY.
British.
British colonies.
Colonization.
Spaniards.
Spanish colonies.
America.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
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505 0 |a 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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