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Europe in Crisis provides an authoritative account of the tumultuous first half of the seventeenth century. During this period the continent was embroiled in revolution, civil war, and complex international conflicts. The author skillfully illuminates the period, placing the upheavals within the context of world experience and providing a clear narrative account of the political, social, economic, and intellectual developments which brought so...

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En esta biografía, que ya quedará como la definitiva de Felipe II, Geoffrey Parker ha utilizado toda la documentación que ha estado recopilando desde los años 70 del siglo XX y, sobre todo, la que salió a la luz en 1998 con motivo del IV centenario de la muerte del rey para pintar un retrato exacto, íntimo del individuo que tuvo un papel primordial en la formación del mundo moderno. Su incapacidad para confi ar en alguien, su inflexibilidad, s...

This is a new edition of Geoffrey Parker's much-admired illustrated account of how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, had by 1800 come to control over one-third of the world. Parker argues that the rapid development of military practice in the West constituted a 'military revolution' which gave Westerners an insurmountable advantage over the peoples of other continents. This edition incorporates new material, inc...

Revised second edition of the classic study, looking at Habsburg Spain's handling of the Dutch Revolt.