| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830. By J. H. Elliott. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xxii, 546 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-11431-1.)

The recognition that Europe's overseas expansion bred competing colonial empires—in contrast to the more monolithic growth of a Rome or China—has long alerted historians to the opportunities for their comparative assessment, even as the range of expertise required has rendered this approach more preached than practiced. Sir John Elliott's long-awaited study, nearly two decades in the making, takes on the task with grace and skill. A renowned historian of peninsular Spain, Elliott sets limits on his voyage into a wider transoceanic world by focusing on the two empires of Spain and Britain in the Americas and by giving, he acknowledges, somewhat lesser attention to native peoples and to areas such as the Caribbean. Sensitive to the dangers of merely tabulating similarities and differences, he seeks to work "by constantly comparing, juxtaposing and interweaving the two stories" (p. xviii).

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