Needless to say, I’m delighted and honored with this review of The Tupac Amaru Rebellion by Sir John Elliott in the New York Review of Books. The Regius Professor Emeritus in the University of Oxford, Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge, J. H. Elliott renovated Iberian history with smart, innovative, and accessible books such as The Revolt of the Catalans and Richelieu and Olivares. He is justifiably a venerated figure in Spain. His 2006 Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 is simply the best comparative history of British and Spanish Empires (I should use the word colonialism carefully–see the review).
I have never had the honor to meet him but I have only heard wonderful things about his collegiality and lack of pretension despite his many honors.
