Armas Para La República: La Aventura del Mar Cantábrico

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...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

La correspondencia mantenida entre varias familias asentadas en un espacio que incluye tierra de Cameros, °lava, Guip_zcoa, Vizcaya, Santander y Navarra se convierte en el motor de la historia de un reducido e influyente grupo vinculado a la expansi n de las ideas ilustradas por el norte peninsular. Este libro refleja el papel de los miembros de este grupo familiar al calor de la transformaci n que se produce desde finales del s. XVIII. Individuo y grupo conforman una imagen peculiar de las ¥reglas de conducta empleadas en el perÃodo analizado. El control de la informaci n y el manejo de...