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Imperial Spain 1469 1716
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Author : J. H Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2002-07-25
Imperial Spain 1469 1716 written by J. H Elliott and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-25 with History categories.
The story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European countries is a remarkable and dramatic one. With the marriage of Ferdinand & Isabella, the final expulsion of the Moslems and the discovery of America, Spain took on a seemingly unstoppable dynamism that made it into the world's first global power. This amazing success however created many powerful enemies and Elliott's famous book charts the dramatic fall of Habsburg Spain with the same elan as it charts the rise.
Imperial Spain 1469 1716
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Author : John Huxtable Elliott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Imperial Spain 1469 1716 written by John Huxtable Elliott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
Imperial Spain 1469 1716
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Author : John Huxtable Elliott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Imperial Spain 1469 1716 written by John Huxtable Elliott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Spain categories.
Imperial Spain 1469 1716
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Author : J. H. Elliott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Imperial Spain 1469 1716 written by J. H. Elliott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
Spain S Road To Empire
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Author : Henry Kamen
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2003-07-03
Spain S Road To Empire written by Henry Kamen and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-03 with History categories.
How did a barren, thinly populated country, somewhat isolated from the rest of Europe become the world's first superpower? Henry Kamen's tremendous new book takes full advantage of its great theme to recreate the dazzling world of militant Castile from the fall of Moorish Granada and Columbus' first voyage to the imperial collapse over three centuries later. There is no better account in English of this immense, brutal adventure - a ceaseless quest for land, gold and slaves that made Spain, both for its conquered peoples and much of the rest of Europe, into a rapacious nightmare.
Empires Of The Atlantic World
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Author : J. H. Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Empires Of The Atlantic World written by J. H. Elliott and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with History categories.
This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires' processes of colonization, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas.
Philip Iii And The Pax Hispanica 1598 1621
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Author : Paul C. Allen
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Philip Iii And The Pax Hispanica 1598 1621 written by Paul C. Allen and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Impoverished and exhausted after fifty years of incessant warfare, the great Spanish Empire at the turn of the sixteenth century negotiated treaties with its three most powerful enemies: England, France, and the Netherlands. This intriguing book examines the strategies that led King Philip III to extend the laurel branch to his foes. Paul Allen argues that, contrary to widespread belief, the king's gestures of peace were in fact part of a grand strategy to enable Spain to regain military and economic strength while its opponents were falsely lulled away from their military pursuits. From the outset, Allen contends, Philip and his advisers intended the Pax Hispanica to continue only until Spain was able to resume its battles--and defeat its enemies. Drawing on primary sources from the four countries involved, the book begins with a discussion of how Spanish foreign policy was formulated and implemented to achieve political and religious aims. The author investigates the development of Philip's "peace" strategy, the Twelve Years' Truce, and the decision to end the truce and engage in war with the Dutch, and then with the English and French. Renewed warfare was no failure of peace policy, Allen shows, but a conscious decision to pursue a consistent strategy. Nevertheless the negotiation for peace did represent a new diplomatic method with significant implications for both the future of the Spanish Empire and the practices of European diplomacy.
Spain Europe The Wider World 1500 1800
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Author : John Huxtable Elliott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Spain Europe The Wider World 1500 1800 written by John Huxtable Elliott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Europe categories.
In this volume, J.H. Elliott gathers writings that reflect his recent research and thinking on politics, art, culture, and ideas in Europe and the colonial worlds between 1500 and 1800.
Blood And Faith
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Author : Matthew Carr
language : en
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Release Date : 2009
Blood And Faith written by Matthew Carr and has been published by Hurst Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
In 1609, King Philip III signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entireMuslim population was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families and communitieswere obliged to abandon homes and villages where they had lived for generations. By 1614 Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist. Blood and Faith is Matthew Carrs riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of the history of Muslim Spain.
Exemplary Stories
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Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1972
Exemplary Stories written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Fiction categories.
Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism, and sheer mirth. With acute narrative skill and deft characterisation, drawing on colloquial language and farce, Cervantes creates a tension between the everyday and the literary, the plausible and the improbable. While encouraging us to reach our own moral conclusions, he also persuades us to accept the coincidental and the incredible: two boys indulge their life of crime at a time of public prayer; a young nobleman undergoes a change of identity at the behest of not a princess but a mere gipsy girl, and, most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize in a ward full of syphilitics. By placing the extraordinary within the contexts of the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative. This new translation captures the full vigour of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed tales, `The Illustrious Kitchen Maid' and `The Power of Blood'.