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This guide will help you find sources for your research for the course European Empires in the Atlantic World. You will find:
- Background/Reference material
- Primary source databases
- Map resources
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"North America, and the West Indies; a new map, wherein the British Empire and its limits, according to the definitive treaty of peace, in 1763, are accurately described, and the dominions possessed by the Spaniards, the French, & other European States.
The whole compiled from all the new surveys, and authentic memoirs that have hitherto appeared."
Map source: Library of Congress
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Ebook
Empires of the Atlantic World by ISBN: 9780300133554Publication Date: 2008-10-01An enthralling account of the entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and their empires in the Americas
Print Books
Empires of the Atlantic World by ISBN: 0300114311Publication Date: 2006-04-15This 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 New Nature of Maps by ISBN: 0801865662Publication Date: 2001-04-17"Focusing on historical examples and the practices of modern cartography, J. B. Harley (1932-1991) offers an alternative to the dominant view that Western cartography since the Renaissance has been a progressive technological, scientific, and objective trajectory of development. This traditional view asserts that maps produce an accurate relational model of terrain and, as such, epitomize representational modernism, which is rooted in the project of the Enlightenment; in sum, maps banish subjectivity from the image. Accordingly, cartographers have promoted a standard scientific model for their discipline, one in which a mirror of nature can be projected through geometry and measurement. Cartographers often mistakenly assess early maps by this modern yardstick, excising from the accepted canon of mapping not only maps from the premodern era but also those from other cultures that do not match Western notions of accuracy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
