J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Oxford. His most recent volume of essays, Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1800, was published in 2009. (August 2011)
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How They Made the Empire
August 18, 2011
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
by Emma Rothschild
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The Very Violent Road to America
June 9, 2011
Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts
by Daniel K. Richter
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Modernizing the Marranos
March 11, 2010
The Other Within: The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity
by Yirmiyahu Yovel
Las imágenes de la discordia: Política y poética de la imagen sagrada en la España del cuatrocientos by Felipe Pereda
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A Question of Coexistence
August 13, 2009
The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture
by Jerrilynn D. Dodds
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World
by Stuart B. Schwartz
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The First Bolivarian Revolution
July 13, 2006
Simón Bolìvar: A Life
by John Lynch
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Barbarians at the Gates
February 23, 2006
Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment
by David J. Weber
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The Reigns in Spain
November 4, 2004
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
Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empirein the Reign of Philip II
by Stafford Poole
Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759–1789
by Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein
Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492–1819
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Chiyo Ishikawa
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A Pan-American Flight
February 26, 2004
The Americas: A Hemispheric History
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Snakes in Paradise
November 20, 2003
Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues
by Kenneth Maxwell
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The Enigma of Philip II
September 25, 1997
Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen
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The ‘Gothic Fox’
November 17, 1994
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Going Baroque
October 20, 1994
The New World of the Gothic Fox: Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America by Claudio Véliz
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The Rediscovery of America
June 24, 1993
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, 16501815 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
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The World After Columbus
October 10, 1991
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Two Worlds and Two Wives
April 11, 1991
Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance: A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy by Alexandra Parma Cook, by Noble David Cook
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The Shivering of Empire
March 1, 1990
First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 14921570 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, 15851740
by Jonathan I. Israel
Art and Death at the Spanish Habsburg Court: The Royal Exequies for Philip IV by Steven N. Orso
Bourbon Spain, 17001808 by John Lynch
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A Question of Upbringing?
June 11, 1987
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
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Concerto Barocco
April 9, 1987
Culture of the Baroque: Analysis of a Historical Structure by José Antonio Maravall, translated by Terry Cochran
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Conspicuous Consumption
October 24, 1985
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
by Sidney W. Mintz
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Mastering the Signs
July 19, 1984
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
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The Other Side of the World
October 13, 1983
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
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Rats or Cheese?
June 26, 1980
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
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Global Vision
December 7, 1978
The Times Atlas of World History edited by Geoffrey Barraclough
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Strangers and Brothers
June 1, 1978
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
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The Triumph of the Virgin of Guadalupe
May 26, 1977
Quetzalcóatl and Guadalupe: The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness 1531-1813 by Jacques Lafaye, translated by Benjamin Keen, with a Foreword by Octavio Paz
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Américainerie
January 22, 1976
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,
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The Great American Debate
May 15, 1975
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.
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Imperial Image Makers
February 20, 1975
Astraea by Frances Yates
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Where We Started
May 16, 1974
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
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Mediterranean Mysteries
May 3, 1973
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Vol. I by Fernand Braudel, translated by Siân Reynolds
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Passage to Cathay
November 18, 1971
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
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Spanish Holocaust
November 5, 1970
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
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Triste Trinidad
May 21, 1970
The Loss of El Dorado by V.S. Naipaul
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The Faces of Spain
February 11, 1965
The Presence of Spain by James Morris, photographs by Evelyn Hofer
An Explanation of Spain by Eléna de La Souchère
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Merchants and Pirates
December 3, 1964
My Voyage Around the World by Francesco Carletti, translated by Herbert Weinstock
Elizabethan Privateering by K.R. Andrews
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Chronicles of the Conquest
April 30, 1964
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