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Spain and Portugal in the New World 1492-1700 Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion edited by Boyd C. Shafer Volume I. Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580 by Bailey Diffie and George Winius Volume II. Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800 by Holden Furber Volume III. Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 by Lyle N. McAlister Volume IV. The North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century by K. G. Davies Volume V. Empires to Nations: Expansion in A merica, 1713-1824 by Max Savelle Volume VI. The False Dawn: European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by Raymond Belts Volume VII. Islands and Empires: Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia by Ernest S. Dodge Volume VIII. The Imperial Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa since 1870 by Henry S. Wilson Volume IX. The Commonwealth of Nations: Origins and Impact, 1869-1971 by W. David Me In tyre Volume X. Uncertain Dimensions: Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century by Raymond Betts SPAIN AND PORTUGAL in the NEW WORLD 1492-1700 by LYLE N. McALISTER UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESSDMINNEAPOLIS Copyright © 1984 by the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Published by the University of Minnesota Press, 2037 University Avenue Southeast, Minneapolis, MN 55414. Printed in the United States of America. Second printing, 1987 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data McAlister, Lyle N. Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. America —Discovery and exploration —Spanish. 2. America —Discovery and exploration —Portuguese. 3. Latin America-History-To 1830. 4. Spain — Colonies — America — History. 5. Portugal—Colonies—America —History. I. Title. E123.M38 1984 980'.01 83-21745 ISBN 0-8166-1216-1 ISBN 0-8166-1218-8 (pbk.) The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion SPONSORS Department of History of the James Ford Bell Library of the University of Minnesota University of Minnesota Library SUPPORTING FOUNDATIONS Northwest Area Foundation James Ford Bell Foundation, (formerly Louis W. and Maud Hil Minneapolis Family Foundation), St. Paul ADVISORY COUNCIL Robert I. Crane J. H. Parry * Lawrence H. Gipson Francis M. Rogers Lewis Hanke A. P. Thornton EDITORS Boyd C. Shafer *Herbert Heaton, founding editor Burton Stein, founding associate editor *deceased This page intentionally left blank To My Dear Wife Geraldine Donaldson McAlister whose patience with the formation of empires was virtually unbounded This page intentionally left blank Editor's Foreword The expansion of Europe since the thirteenth century has had profound in- fluences on peoples throughout the world. Encircling the globe, the expan- sion changed men's lives and goals and became one of the decisive movements in the history of mankind. This series of ten volumes explores the nature and impact of the expan- sion. It attempts not so much to go over once more the familiar themes of "Gold, Glory, and the Gospel," as to describe, on the basis of new questions and interpretations, what appears to have happened insofar as modern histori- cal scholarship can determine. No work or works on so large a topic can include everything that hap- pened or be definitive. This series, as it proceeds, emphasizes the discoveries, the explorations, and the territorial expansion of Europeans, the relationships between the colonized and the colonizers, the effects of the expansion on Asians, Africans, Americans, Indians, and the various "islanders," the emer- gence into nationhood and world history of many peoples that Europeans had known little or nothing about, and, to a lesser extent, the effects of the expansion on Europe. The use of the word discoveries, of course, reveals European (and Ameri- can) provincialism. The "new" lands were undiscovered only in the sense that they were unknown to Europeans. Peoples with developed cultures and civili- zations already had long inhabited most of the huge areas to which Europeans sailed and over which they came to exercise their power and influence. Never- theless, the political, economic, and social expansion that came with and after ix
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