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Author : Henry Kamen
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89001824473
Author : Christopher Storrs
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191514326
Christopher Storrs presents a fresh new appraisal of the reasons for the survival of Spain and its European and overseas empire under the last Spanish Habsburg, Carlos II (1665-1700). Hitherto it has been largely assumed that in the 'Age of Louis XIV' Spain collapsed as a military, naval and imperial power, and only retained its empire because states which had hitherto opposed Spanish hegemony came to Carlos's aid. However, this view seriously underestimates the efforts of Carlos II and his ministers to raise men to fight in Spain's various armies - above all in Flanders, Lombardy, and Catalonia - and to ensure that Spain continued to have galleons in the Atlantic and galleys in the Mediterranean. These commitments were expensive, so that the fiscal pressures on Carlos' subjects to fund the empire continued to be considerable. Not surprisingly, these demands added to the political tensions in a reign in which the succession problem already generated difficulties. They also put pressure on an administrative structure which revealed some weaknesses but which also proved its worth in time of need. The burden of empire was still largely carried in Spain by Castile (assisted by the silver of the Indies), but Spain's ability to hang onto empire was also helped by a greater integration of centre and periphery, and by the contribution of the non-Castilian territories, notably Aragon in Spain and Naples in Spanish Italy. This book radically revises our understanding of the last decades of Habsburg Spain. As Storrs demonstrates, it was a state and society more clearly committed to the retention of empire - and more successful in achieving this - than historians have hitherto acknowledged.
Author : Graham Darby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317897705
At the beginning of the seventeenth century Spain was the foremost power in Europe. Yet during the hundred years that followed, it suffered an acute decline, economically and politically. Graham Darby traces the course of Spain's eventful history down to the inglorious end of the Habsburg monarchy and analyses the various, often conflicting, explanations and interpretations of `decline'.
Author : Caroline Brown Bourland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258542560
Smith College Fiftieth Anniversary Publications, V8.
Author : Colin Pendrill
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 043532733X
Containing sample exam questions at both AS and A2 levels, this text shows students what makes a good answer and why it scores high marks. It helps students grasp the difference between a GCSE and an A-level mark in history.
Author : Francois Soyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004268876
This book charts the history and influence of the most vitriolic and successful anti-Semitic polemic ever to have been printed in the early modern Hispanic world and offers the first critical edition and translation of the text into English. First printed in Madrid in 1674, the Centinela contra judíos (“Sentinel against the Jews”) was the work of the Franciscan Francisco de Torrejoncillo, who wrote it to defend the mission of the Spanish Inquisition, to call for the expansion of discriminatory racial statutes and, finally, to advocate in favour of the expulsion of all the descendants of converted Jews from Spain and its empire. Francisco de Torrejoncillo combined the existing racial, theological, social and economic strands within Spanish anti-Semitism to demonize the Jews and their converted descendants in Spain in a manner designed to provoke strong emotional responses from its readership.
Author : I. A. A. Thompson,Bartolomi Yun Casalilla
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521416248
This is a collection of recent revisionist essays on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile by Spanish historians. The aim if the volume is to draw the attention of English-speaking scholars to the new approaches, techniques and source materials that have transformed Catalan economic and social history over the past two decades and to make available in English the most important of the conclusions that have undermined the old but still standard orthodoxies of the textbooks, but that have been acceible hitherto only to specialists.
Author : Lyle N. McAlister
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816612161
Spanish and Portuguese expansion substantially altered the social, political, and economic contours of the modern world. In his book, Lyle McAlister provides a narrative and interpretive history of the exploration and settlement of the Americas by Spain and Portugal. McAlister divides this period (and the book) into three parts. First, he describes the formation of Old World societies with particular attention to those features that influenced the directions and forms of overseas expansion. Second, he traces the dynamic processes of conquest and colonization that between 1492 and about 1570 firmly established Spanish and Portuguese dominion in the New World. The third part deals with colonial growth and consolidation down to about 1700. McAlister's main themes are: the post-conquest territorial expansion that established the limits of what later came to be called Latin America, the emergence of distinctively Spanish and Portuguese American societies and economies, the formation of systems of imperial control and exploitation, and the ways in which conflicts between imperial and American interests were reconciled. This comprehensive history, with its extensive bibliographic essay and attention to historiographic issues, will be a standard reference for students and scholars of the period.
Author : Gigliola Pagano De Divitiis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521580315
This book shows how England's conquest of Mediterranean trade proved to be the first step in building its future economic and commercial hegemony, and how Italy lay at the heart of that process. In the seventeenth century the Mediterranean was the largest market for the colonial products which were exported by English merchants, as well as being a source of raw materials which were indispensable for the growing and increasingly aggressive domestic textile industry. The new free port of Livorno became the linchpin of English trade with the Mediterranean and, together with ports in southern Italy, formed part of a system which enabled the English merchant fleet to take control of the region's trade from the Italians. In her extensive use of English and Italian archival sources, the author looks well beyond Braudel's influential picture of a Spanish-dominated Mediterranean world. In doing so she demonstrates some of the causes of Italy's decline and its subsequent relegation as a dominant force in world trade.
Author : John Huxtable Elliott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300048637
It used to be said that the sun never set on the empire of the King of Spain. It was therefore appropriate that Emperor Charles V should have commissioned from Battista Agnese in 1543 a world map as a birthday present for his sixteen-year-old son, the future Philip II. This was the world as Charles V and his successors of the House of Austria knew it, a world crossed by the golden path of the treasure fleets that linked Spain to the riches of the Indies. It is this world, with Spain at its center, that forms the subject of this book. J.H. Elliott, the pre-eminent historian of early modern Spain and its world, originally published these essays in a variety of books and journals. They have here been grouped into four sections, each with an introduction outlining the circumstances in which they were written and offering additional reflections. The first section, on the American world, explores the links between Spain and its American possessions. The second section, "The European World," extends beyond the Castilian center of the Iberian peninsula and its Catalan periphery to embrace sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe as a whole. In "The World of the Court," the author looks at the character of the court of the Spanish Habsburgs and the perennially uneasy relationship between the world of political power and the world of arts and letters. The final section is devoted to the great historical question of the decline of Spain, a question that continues to resonate in the Anglo-American world of today.
Author : Maurice Esses
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0945193084
V. 1. History and background, music and dance -- v. 2. Musical transcriptions -- v. 3. The notes in Spanish and other languages from the sources.
Author : Timothy R Walton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781561648993
The story of the expeditions of Spanish explorers told through the history of the first American currency: pieces of eight.
Author : Curtis Price
Publisher : Springer
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349112944
Author : James Casey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134623815
Early Modern Spain: A social History explores the solidarities which held the Spanish nation together at this time of conflict and change. The book studies the pattern of fellowship and patronage at the local level which contributed to the notable absence of popular revolts characteristic of other European countries at this time. It also analyses the Counter-Reformation, which transformed religious attitudes, and which had a huge impact on family life, social control and popular culture. Focusing on the main themes of the development of capitalism, the growth of the state and religious upheaval, this comprehensive social history sheds light on changes throughout Europe in the critical early modern period.
Author : María Cristina Quintero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317129615
The Baroque Spanish stage is populated with virile queens and feminized kings. This study examines the diverse ways in which seventeenth-century comedias engage with the discourse of power and rulership and how it relates to gender. A privileged place for ideological negotiation, the comedia provided negative and positive reflections of kingship at a time when there was a perceived crisis of monarchical authority in the Habsburg court. Author María Cristina Quintero explores how playwrights such as Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Antonio Coello, and Francisco Bances Candamo--taking inspiration from legend, myth, and history--repeatedly staged fantasies of feminine rule, at a time when there was a concerted effort to contain women's visibility and agency in the public sphere. The comedia's preoccupation with kingship together with its obsession with the representation of women (and women's bodies) renders the question of royal subjectivity inseparable from issues surrounding masculinity and femininity. Taking into account theories of performance and performativity within a historical context, this study investigates how the themes, imagery, and language in plays by Calderón and his contemporaries reveal a richly paradoxical presentation of gendered monarchical power.