El nacimiento del Imperio Británico y el horizonte político de Nueva Inglaterra a finales del siglo XVII

Abstract

I propose to demostrate that the political-administrative construction of New England at the end of the seventeenth century is closely related to the internal problems of England, generated in the courde of the Restoration of the Stuarts and the Glorious Revolution. But both the American and the European problems can only be explained with any scientific precision in the general context of the highly condicitioning Atlantic relations. In this work, I hace taken very much into account the conceptual and historiographic proposals of Jack Greene, James Mulddon, John Elliott, Paul Kennedy and Bernard Bailyn, among other distinguished historians. I have based myself on the documentation linked with the administration of the governors-general (for instance, Sir Edmund Andros). Methodologically speaking, I hace used the principles of comparative history. And I must underline, finally, the current needs of political history to first understand and, even to resolve, the recurring questions of the rise and fall of empires; the permanent imbalance between the centre and the periphery; the plurisecular antynomy between supranational and local powers; and the eternal battle between the unity and the diversity of peoples.