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For nearly two centuries Spain was the world's most influential nation, dominant in Europe and with authority over immense territories in America and the Pacific. Because none of this was achieved by its own economic or military resources, Henry Kamen sets out to explain how it achieved the unexpected status of world power, and examines political events and foreign policy through the reigns of each of the nation's rulers, from Ferdinand and Is...

A new edition of a seminal work-one that explores crucial changes within Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century

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From a leading authority on the history of Spain comes a provocative and original work of history that explores the role of exiles in creating Hispanic culture. 16-page b&w, photo insert.

In sixteenth-century Europe, culture and religious belief were so enmeshed that they informed and underpinned every act, however mundane, of every ordinary man or woman. But while the Reformation is acknowledged to have brought revolutionary change to Western society, the people of Catholic Europe have usually been regarded as little affected. Spain, in particular, is supposed to have escaped the winds of change entirely. Now, by considering t...

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Fernando Álvarez de Toledo (1507-1582), tercer duque de Alba, fue el general más famoso del imperio español, cuya potencia militar contribuyó a crear. Durante más de cuarenta años sirvió, con gran valor y fidelidad, al emperador Carlos V y a su hijo Felipe II, liderando las campañas de la Corona en la Península y en Europa. Sin embargo, su reputación histórica ha sido muy desfavorable y fuera de nuestras fronteras se le ha visto como el paradi...

From the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, Spain was the most extensive empire the world had seen, stretching from Naples and the Netherlands to the Philippines. This provocative work of history attributes Spain's rise to power to the collaboration of international business interests, including Italian financiers, German technicians, and Dutch traders. At the height of its power, the Spanish Empire was a global enterprise in which ...

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