Table of Contents: Empires of the Atlantic world :

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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Table of Contents:

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.