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.
Chapter 1. Intrusion and Empire
Chapter 2. Occupying American Space
Chapter 3. Confronting American Peoples
Chapter 4. Exploiting American Resources
Chapter 5. Crown and Colonists
Chapter 6. The Ordering of Society
Chapter 7. America as Sacred Space
Chapter 8. Empire and Identity
Chapter 9. Societies on the Move
Chapter 12. A New World in the Making