The Spanish seaborne empire

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The Spanish seaborne empire

by J.H. Parry

University of California Press, 1990, c1966

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Reprint. Previously published: New York : Knopf, 1981

Bibliography: p. [383]-400

Includes index

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The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three hundred years before breaking up in the early nineteenth century in civil wars between rival generals and 'liberators'. Available now for the first time in paperback is J.H. Parry's classic assessment of the impact of Spain on the Americas. Parry presents a broad picture of the conquests of Cortes and Pizarro and of the economic and social consequences in Spain of the effort to maintain control of vast holdings. He probes the complex administration of the empire, its economy, social structure, the influence of the Church, the destruction of the Indian cultures and the effect of their decline on Spanish policy. As we approach the quincentenary of Columbus' arrival in the Americas, Parry provides the historical basis for a new consideration of the former Spanish colonies of Latin America and the transformation of pre-Columbian cultures to colonial states.

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Introduction by ].H. Plumb PROLOGUE The tradition of conquest PART I THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EMPIRE I Islands and mainland in the Ocean Sea 2 Seville and the Caribbean 3 The kingdoms of the sun 4 The conquerors 5 The society of conquest 6 The maritime life-line PART II THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF EMPIRE 7 Rights and duties 8 The spreading of the Faith 9 The ordering of society 10 The enforcement of law PART III THE COST OF EMPIRE 11 Demographic catastrophe 12 Economic dependence 13 Peril by sea PART IV THE ENDURANCE OF EMPIRE 14 Decline and recovery 15 Caribbean conflicts 16 Growth and reorganisation PART V THE DISINTEGRATION OF EMPIRE 17 Spaniards and Americans 18 The Creole revolt CONCLUSION The aftermath of empire Bibliographical notes Index

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