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Philip Ii Of Spain

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Author : Martin Andrew Sharp Hume
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28

Philip Ii Of Spain written by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.

FOR three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice he loomed rather as the permanent embodiment of a system than as an individual man swayed by changing circumstances and controlled by human frailties. The more recent histories of his reign—the works of English, American, German, and French scholars—have treated their subject with fuller knowledge and broader sympathies, but they have necessarily been to a large extent histories of the great events which convulsed Europe for fifty years at the most critical period of modern times. The space to be occupied by the present work will not admit of this treatment of the subject. The purpose is therefore to consider Philip mainly as a statesman, in relation to the important problems with which he had to deal, rather than to write a connected account of the occurrences of a long reign. It will be necessary for us to try to penetrate the objects he aimed at and the influences, personal and exterior, which ruled him, and to seek the reasons for his failure. For he did fail utterly. In spite of very considerable powers of mind, of a long lifetime of incessant toil, of deep-laid plans, and vast ambitions, his record is one continued series of defeats and disappointments; and in exchange for the greatest heritage that Christendom had ever seen, with the apparently assured prospect of universal domination which opened before him at his birth, he closed his dying eyes upon dominions distracted and ruined beyond all recovery, a bankrupt State, a dwindled prestige, and a defeated cause. He had devoted his life to the task of establishing the universal supremacy of Catholicism in the political interests of Spain, and he was hopelessly beaten. The reasons for his defeat will be seen in the course of the present work to have been partly personal and partly circumstantial. The causes of both these sets of reasons were laid at periods long anterior to Philip’s birth.

Philip Ii

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Author : David Hilliam
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2004-12-15

Philip Ii written by David Hilliam and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Presents the life and accomplishments of Spain's monarch who led the Counter-Reformation and held the title of "Most Catholic Majesty."

The History Of The Reign Of Philip Ii King Of Spain

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Author : Robert Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1777

The History Of The Reign Of Philip Ii King Of Spain written by Robert Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1777 with categories.

Philip Of Spain

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Author : Henry Kamen
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1997-01-01

Philip Of Spain written by Henry Kamen 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 1997-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Reassesses King Philip II's reputation as narrow-minded tyrant, describes the major events of his reign, and presents a more rounded depiction of his personality