[PDF] The Old World And The New 1492 1650 eBook

Author : J. H. Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 1992-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521427098

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This 1992 book shows how the discovery of the new world affected Europe intellectually, economically, and politically.

Author : Noble David Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 1998-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521627306

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The biological mingling of the Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: it led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it also resulted in the rapid expansion and consequent economic and military hegemony of Europeans. Amerindians had never before experienced the deadly Eurasian sicknesses brought by the foreigners in wave after wave: smallpox, measles, typhus, plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever. These diseases literally conquered the Americas before the sword could be unsheathed. From 1492 to 1650, from Hudson's Bay in the north to southernmost Tierra del Fuego, disease weakened Amerindian resistance to outside domination. The Black Legend, which attempts to place all of the blame of the injustices of conquest on the Spanish, must be revised in light of the evidence that all Old World peoples carried, though largely unwittingly, the germs of the destruction of American civilization.

Author : Roger Schlesinger
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :

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Attempts to assess the impact of the exploration and conquest of America on early modern Europe and considers several different subjects, because the existence of America influenced the development of European civilisation in a variety of ways.

Author : J. H. Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 1991-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521406741

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Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of the great struggle in seventeenth-century Europe between France and Spain: the triumph of France assured the fame of Richelieu, while Spain's failure condemned Olivares to historical neglect. This fascinating book by the distinguished historian J. H. Elliott argues that contemporaries, for whom Olivares was at least as important as Richelieu, shared none of posterity's certainty about the inevitability of that outcome. His absorbing comparative portrait of the two men, as personalities and as statesmen, through their policies and their mutual struggle, offers unique insights into seventeenth-century Europe and the nature of power and statesmanship.

Author : P. Scott Corbett
Publisher :
Page : 1886 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2024-09-10
Category : History
ISBN :

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U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

Author : Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807845103

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For review see: Stephen J. Homick, in The Hispanic Historical Review (HAHR), vol. 77, no. 1 (February 1997); p. 78-80.