Author: Salvador de MadariagaPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Rise of the Spanish American Empire
Author: Salvador de MadariagaPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Rise of the Spanish American Empire
Author: The Rise of the Spanish American Empire
Author: Salvador de MadariagaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Experiencing Nature
Author: Antonio Barrera-OsorioPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292782896
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
As Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats, merchants, adventurers, physicians, ship pilots, and friars explored the natural world, gathered data, drew maps, and sent home specimens of America's vast resources of animals, plants, and minerals. This amassing of empirical knowledge about Spain's American possessions had two far-reaching effects. It overturned the medieval understanding of nature derived from Classical texts and helped initiate the modern scientific revolution. And it allowed Spain to commodify and control the natural resources upon which it built its American empire. In this book, Antonio Barrera-Osorio investigates how Spain's need for accurate information about its American colonies gave rise to empirical scientific practices and their institutionalization, which, he asserts, was Spain's chief contribution to the early scientific revolution. He also conclusively links empiricism to empire-building as he focuses on five areas of Spanish activity in America: the search for commodities in, and the ecological transformation of, the New World; the institutionalization of navigational and information-gathering practices at the Spanish Casa de la Contratación (House of Trade); the development of instruments and technologies for exploiting the natural resources of the Americas; the use of reports and questionnaires for gathering information; and the writing of natural histories about the Americas.
The Fall of the Spanish American Empire
Author: Salvador de MadariagaPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Insurrection Or Loyalty
Author: Jorge I. DomÃnguezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Spanish Empire in America
Author: Clarence Henry HaringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Empires of the Atlantic World
Author: J. H. ElliottPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
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.
The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire
Author: Bartholomew H. SparrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Focuses on America's first attempts at empire-building through a string of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the early part of the 20th century that tried to define the legal and constitutional status of America's island territories: Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines, among others, and reveals how the Court provided the rationalization for the establishment of an American empire.
Empire by Default
Author: Ivan MusicantPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 9780805035001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The definitive version of the Spanish-American War as well as a dramatic account of America's emergence as a global power.