![]() ![]() We begin with three country-country power struggles of the late 1600sSpain and England in the Caribbean, Spain and France in Tejas (Texas), and France and England in the northeast mainland. Country-country, country-colony, colonists-governors, colonists-Native Americans, and colonists-Africans: each relationship will be considered separately while we remind ourselves that each is a facet of a complex whole. Getting it, keeping it, sharing it, redefining it, losing it, and hardest of all, keeping a clear view of where one stands in the reshuffling of power relationships. ![]() In this fifth and last section of the Toolbox, we consider the fuel driving this two-hundred-year history of Europe in North America: power. Spanish/English: Rivalry for power in the Caribbean, 1498-1670, eleven documents (excerpts)Įnglish: A New Map of the English Plantations in America, 1690 (Map #11) Imperial Rivalry I: Spain & England » Reading Guide What did "North America" signify to Europe in 1690? to the inhabitants of North America? How did the European rivalries of the 1690s in North America set the stage for the later imperial conflicts of the 1700s? What power relationships had been forged among the peoples of North America by 1690? History and Literature, Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center Power, American Beginnings: 1492-1690, Primary Resources in U.S. ![]()
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