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The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline

J. H. Elliott

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The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline

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 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.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2006
ISBN-13
9780300133554
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Spanish empire statesman17th-century SpainPolitical decline

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