J.H. Elliott
J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Count-Duke of Olivares and Spain and Its World. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492– 1830 has just been published. (June 2006)
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July 13, 2006: The First Bolivarian Revolution
Simón Bolìvar: A Life by John Lynch
February 23, 2006: Barbarians at the Gates
Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment by David J. Weber
November 4, 2004: The Reigns in Spain
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan by Hugh Thomas
Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America by David A. Lupher
Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759–1789 by Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein
Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empirein the Reign of Philip II by Stafford Poole
Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492–1819 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Chiyo Ishikawa
February 26, 2004: A Pan-American Flight
The Americas: A Hemispheric History by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
November 20, 2003: Snakes in Paradise
Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues by Kenneth Maxwell
September 25, 1997: The Enigma of Philip II
Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen
November 17, 1994: The 'Gothic Fox' (letter)
October 20, 1994: Going Baroque
The New World of the Gothic Fox: Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America by Claudio Véliz
October 21, 1993: 'American Holocaust' (letter)
June 24, 1993: The Rediscovery of America
Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America by James Axtell
American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard
1492 and All That: Political Manipulations of History by Robert Royal
European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism by Anthony Pagden
The Spanish Frontier in North America by David J. Weber
The Middle Ground: Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650–1815 by Richard White
The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries by James Lockhart
October 10, 1991: The World After Columbus
April 11, 1991: Two Worlds and Two Wives
Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance: A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy by Alexandra Parma Cook, by Noble David Cook
March 1, 1990: The Shivering of Empire
First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492–1570 edited by Jerald T. Milanich, edited by Susan Milbrath
Commander of the Armada: The Seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia by Peter Pierson
The Adventures of Captain Alonso de Contreras: A 17th Century Journey by Alonso de Contreras, translated and annotated by Philip Dallas
Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585–1740 by Jonathan I. Israel
Art and Death at the Spanish Habsburg Court: The Royal Exequies for Philip IV by Steven N. Orso
Bourbon Spain, 1700–1808 by John Lynch
June 11, 1987: A Question of Upbringing?
Anne Boleyn by Eric W. Ives
Louis XIII: The Making of a King by Elizabeth Wirth Marvick
Anne of Austria: Queen of France by Ruth Kleinman
April 9, 1987: Concerto Barocco
Culture of the Baroque: Analysis of a Historical Structure by José Antonio Maravall, translated by Terry Cochran
October 24, 1985: Conspicuous Consumption
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz
July 19, 1984: Mastering the Signs
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Richard Howard
Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism by Geoffrey W. Conrad, by Arthur A. Demarest
October 13, 1983: The Other Side of the World
Os Descobrimentos Portugueses e a Europa do Renascimento/Portuguese Discoveries and Renaissance Europe and Culture, Lisbon, 1983
The Pacific since Magellan Vol. 1: The Spanish Lake; Vol. 2: Monopolists and Freebooters by O. H. K. Spate
June 26, 1980: Rats or Cheese?
Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany by Carlo M. Cipolla, translated by Muriel Kittel
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by John Tedeschi, by Anne Tedeschi
December 7, 1978: Global Vision
The Times Atlas of World History edited by Geoffrey Barraclough
June 1, 1978: Strangers and Brothers
Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism by Ronald Sanders
The Church Militant and Iberian Expansion, 1440-1770 by C.R. Boxer
May 26, 1977: The Triumph of the Virgin of Guadalupe
Quetzalcóatl and Guadalupe: The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness 1531-1813 by Jacques Lafaye, translated by Benjamin Keen, with a Foreword by Octavio Paz
January 22, 1976: Américainerie
The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time by Hugh Honour
The European Vision of America by Hugh Honour
The European Vision of America 1976 The National Gallery, Washington, DC, December 7, 1975-February 14,
May 15, 1975: The Great American Debate
The Dispute of the New World: The History of a Polemic, 1750-1900 by Antonello Gerbi, translated by Jeremy Moyle
American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginia by Alden Vaughan
Bartolomé de Las Casas in History edited by Juan Friede, edited by Benjamin Keen
All Mankind Is One by Lewis Hanke
In Defense of the Indians by Bartolomé de Las Casas, translated, edited, and annotated by Stafford Poole C.M.
February 20, 1975: Imperial Image Makers
Astraea by Frances Yates
May 16, 1974: Where We Started
The Shape of European History by William H. McNeill
Venice: The Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797 by William H. McNeill
Venice, a Maritime Republic by Frederic C. Lane
Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800 by Eric Cochrane
May 3, 1973: Mediterranean Mysteries
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Vol. I by Fernand Braudel, translated by Siân Reynolds
November 18, 1971: Passage to Cathay
The Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano, 1524-1528 by Lawrence C. Wroth
The Beginnings of Modern Colonization by Charles Verlinden, translated by Yvonne Freccero
The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages by Samuel Eliot Morison
Beyond the Capes: Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger (1776-1877) by Ernest S. Dodge
November 5, 1970: Spanish Holocaust
The Tears of the Indians by Bartolomé de Las Casas, translated by John Philips
The Life of Las Casas by Sir Arthur Helps
The Chronicles of Michoacán translated and edited by Eugene R. Craine, by Reginald C. Reindorp
Gold, Glory, and the Gospel by Louis B. Wright
The Conquest of the Incas by John Hemming
September 24, 1970: Spices & Christians
Magellan's Voyage by Antonio Pigafetta, translated and edited by R.A. Skelton
The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415-1825 by C.R. Boxer
May 21, 1970: Triste Trinidad
The Loss of El Dorado by V.S. Naipaul
February 11, 1965: The Faces of Spain
The Presence of Spain by James Morris, photographs by Evelyn Hofer
An Explanation of Spain by Eléna de La Souchère
December 3, 1964: Merchants and Pirates
My Voyage Around the World by Francesco Carletti, translated by Herbert Weinstock
Elizabethan Privateering by K.R. Andrews
April 30, 1964: Chronicles of the Conquest
The Conquistadors: First-person Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico edited and translated by Patricia de Fuentes
Cortes: The Life of the Conqueror by his Secretary Francisco Lopez de Gomara, translated and edited by Lesley Byrd Simpson
The Aztecs: The History of the Indies of New Spain by Fray Diego Durán, translated by Doris Heyden, by Fernando Horcasitas
Books by J.H. Elliott
Do the Americas Have a Common History?: An Address (1998)
National and Comparative History: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 10 May 1991 (1991)
Spain and Its World, 1500-1700: Selected Essays (1989)
The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline (1986)
The Revolt of the Catalans: A Study in the Decline of Spain (1598-1640) (1984)
Richelieu and Olivares (1984)
The Old World and the New 1492-1650 (1970)