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050	0	0	_aE18.82 _b.E44 2006
082	0	0	_a970.02 ELL
100	1		_aElliott, J. H. (John Huxtable)
245	1	0	_aEmpires of the Atlantic world _b: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 _c/ J.H. Elliott
260			_aNew Haven _b: Yale University Press _c, c2006.
300			_axx, 546 p., [32] p. of plates _b: ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.) _c; 26 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [481]-516) and index.
520			_aThis epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's 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 colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas.
650			_aBritish _z-Atlantic Ocean region _x-History
650			_aSpaniards _z-Atlantic Ocean region _x-History
651		0	_aAmerica _x--History _z--To 1810
651			_aGreat Britain _x-History _y-Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D. _v--Fiction
651			_aSpain _x-Colonies _x-History
651			_aUnited States _x-History _y-Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
651		4	_aAmerica _x--Colonization
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