About this title: This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus' 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2007-04-24
ISBN-13:9780300123999ISBN:030012399X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2007-04-24
ISBN-13:9780300123999ISBN:030012399X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780300123999ISBN:030012399X
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780300114317ISBN:0300114311
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Yale University Press, 2006. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ. Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780300114317ISBN:0300114311
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First Edition. NF/NF. Hardcover, blue boards with gilt titles, DJ, 560 pp, illustrated with color plates in section, large octavo, very slight edgewear with corners slightly bumped, else a clean and crisp copy. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780300114317ISBN:0300114311
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0-300-11431-1. Hardcover. Yale University Press, 2006. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble-wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780300114317ISBN:0300114311
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2006-04-15
ISBN-13:9780300114317ISBN:0300114311
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2006-04-15
ISBN-13:9780300114317ISBN:0300114311
Description: Good. What's the difference between fiction and reality? Ficton has to make sense. Tom Clancy. If you buy this book, it will ship from Kentucky. It may have some writing and highlighting. If this is a book for class, it might not have some of the extra materials it originally came with like the CD or any access codes. You probably don't need those anyway, but you might want to check with your professor first just in case. Please email us if you have any questions, and thanks for checking us ... read more
"Again, reading on my Kindle. Lots and lots of interesting factoids. I'm reading it in conjunction with Don Quixote. I'm pretty interested in Spanish culture mostly because I love travelling in Spain. If you haven't been to Andalusia, you have to go. This is a great antidote to the ultra-Anglophilic history of my youth."
"Absolutely fascinating. I think I've said this before, but the more I learn about history, the more I know that I just don't know as much as I thought I did. There are so many written accounts of the early explorations of the New World that we never have a chance to dig into in a general history class. This book also highlighted some of the interactions between the Spanish and English explorers. The English tried to use what they learned from the Spanish accounts of exploring Central and South America, but, big surprise! The North American climate, terrain, and of course, the Natives were very different.
I know I didn't get as much as I could have out of this book on a first read. I should check it out again to glean more. (Or maybe I should buy it and use it as a reference when I'm teaching my kids history from this time. It was very well researched.)"
"A hefty tome with an excellent premise: comparing and contrasting the Spanish and English empires in the New World. Solid tripartite organization into three parts:
1. Occupation (e.g., Ch. 1 Cortes and Newport: Motives & Methods) 2. Consolidation (e.g., Ch. 5 Crown and Colonists: The framework of empire; authority and resistance) 3. Emancipation (e.g., Ch. 11 Empires in crisis: Ideas in Ferment; a community divided; a crisis contained)
However, the prose is rather dense, meandering and unengaging, and comparing/contrasting seems secondary to mere juxtaposition of analysis."
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