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This 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.

Spaniards --- British --- Spanish people --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- History. --- America --- Great Britain --- Spain --- United States --- Americas --- New World --- Espanja --- Spanien --- Hiszpania --- Spanish State --- España --- Estado Español --- Espagne --- Hispania --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanye --- Shpanie --- Reino de España --- Kingdom of Spain --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Espainiako Erresuma --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Espanya --- Espanha --- スペイン --- Supein --- イスパニア --- Isupania --- History --- Colonies --- Colonization. --- Ethnology --- Western Hemisphere --- To 1810 --- Colonization --- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --- British (Nation) --- Atlantic Ocean Region --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Spain --- History of North America --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Colonisation --- Amérique --- Grande-Bretagne --- États-Unis --- Découverte et exploration britanniques --- Découverte et exploration espagnoles --- Histoire. --- British -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History.. --- Spaniards -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History.. --- America -- History -- To 1810.. --- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History.. --- Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History.. --- America -- Colonization.. --- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. --- Colonies britanniques --- Colonies espagnoles