Bilbao: Beitia, 1994. — 171 orr. Sarrera: Historia berriaren ildoa sakontzen. Matxinoak, matxinada zaharrak eta langileriaren lehen erakundetzea, 1843-1882. Bilbo eta lege zaharreko garaian hiriburu haundi bihurtu ez zen hiriaren bilikaera.
Boydell and Brewer, 2021. — 211 p. This book examines how anxieties about colonial power and national identity are reflected in Spanish literature, journalism, and photography of Moroccan Muslim and Jewish cultures during the Spanish colonisation of Northern Morocco from 1909 to 1927. This understudied period, known as the Rif War, is highly significant because of its role in...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 218 p. Most recent studies have revealed the existence of a huge social mobility in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries, despite what had been believed according to the previous historiographical consensus. The archive research carried out by various specialists –and above all by Dr. Enrique Soria Mesa and his team– has been decisive in this discovery....
La Esfera, 2011. — 550 p. España prefirió a ese monstruo llamado Fernando VII. Yo admiro el sentimiento de insensato honor que inflama a los bravos españoles, pero ¡qué diferencia para su felicidad si, desde 1808, hubieran sido gobernados por el prudente José y por su constitución!. José Napoleón I, rey de España de 1808 a 1813, fue apodado «el Intruso» o más injustamente «Pepe...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 269 p. Spanish colonialism exacted a high price from its subjects, promoting economic dependency at the expense of a more vital, diversified economy based on a mix of industry and agriculture. The result was a legacy of underdevelopment, domestic social inequities, and economic subordination to the North Atlantic world. This volume examines...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 322 p. Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the transatlantic transfer and transformation of goods and ideas, with particular emphasis on their reception in Europe.
Bilbo: Euskaltzaindia, 2008. — 268 p. Аулестиа Горка. Опалённые войной (на исп. яз.) Índice: Prólogo. Fin de la II Guerra Carlista y pérdida de los Fueros Vascos (1876-1930). Monarquía, Dictadura (1923-1930). “Pizkunde” (Renacimiento, 1930-1936), República (1931-1936), Guerra Civil (1936-1939). Postguerra Civil. Exilio Vasco en América. Exilio vasco en Iparralde y Francia....
University of New Mexico Press, 1995. — 275 p. Between 1537 and 1543, six Spanish expeditions entered highland Colombia, subdued the Muisca Indians, and created the New Kingdom of Granada. Of the nearly 2,000 men who set out to conquer and colonize the region, 658 survivors of the six expeditions are identified and studied in this first-ever collective biography of these...
Clarendon Press, 1997. — 288 p. This is the first full account in any language of Spain's disastrous war with the United States in 1898, in which it lost the remnants of its old empire. It is also the first comprehensive analysis of the ensuing political and social crisis in Spain from the loss of empire through the First World War to the military coup of 1923. Balfour's study...
Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado, 2015. — 626 p. Esta obra de Feliciano Barrios, catedrático de Historia del Derecho y de las Instituciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha y reconocido especialista en la materia que nos ocupa, se adentra en el estudio de la monarquía hispánica bajo los Austrias desde su doble condición de Imperio universal y católico. Como...
AK Press, 2021. — 224 p. The "Tragic Week in Spain, which took place in July 1909, began as anti-conscription riots, but soon evolved into a widespread uprising attacking the pillars of Spanish society: Church and State. It is known today mostly for its most famous martyr, Francisco Ferrer, the radical educator and founder of the Modern School who was executed by the Spanish...
Routledge, 2022. — 195 p. For Charles V and Philip II, both of whom expected to continue the momentum of the Reconquista into a campaign against Islam, the theology and political successes of Martin Luther and John Calvin menaced not just the possibility of a universal empire, but the survival of the Habsburg monarchy. Moreover, the Protestant Reformation stimulated changes...
Porcupine Press, 1976. — 470 p. The Glorious Revolution took place in Spain in 1868, resulting in the deposition of Queen Isabella II. The success of the revolution marked the beginning of the Sexenio Democrático with the installment of a provisional government. Leading up to the Glorious Revolution, there had been numerous failed attempts to overthrow the unpopular Queen...
Routledge, 2019. — 155 p. Italian businessmen played a key role in both international trade and finance from the Middle Ages until the first decades of the seventeenth century. While the peak of their influence within and beyond Europe has been thoroughly examined by historians, the way in which merchants from the Italian peninsula reacted and adapted themselves to the...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2017. — 320 p. La auténtica historia del Rey Prudente, el monarca más poderoso de su época que convirtió sus dominios en el primer imperio mundial. Un apasionante recorrido histórico por los principales acontecimientos históricos y las intrigas de la corte. Desde las guerras, El Escorial y la Armada Invencible hasta las políticas secretas del rey...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 252 p. Research on European food culture has expanded substantially in recent years, telling us more about food preparation, ingredients, feasting and fasting rituals, and the social and cultural connotations of food. At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food as a mechanism for the performance of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 252 p. Research on European food culture has expanded substantially in recent years, telling us more about food preparation, ingredients, feasting and fasting rituals, and the social and cultural connotations of food. At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food as a mechanism for the performance of...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2010. — 304 p. 1808-1814: la heroica historia del levantamiento armado contra el invasor, el desarrollo de la primera constitución y el nacimiento de la España Moderna. La Guerra de Independencia es un fenómeno muy complejo en el que la vertiente militar no puede desvincularse del aspecto ideológico, social o económico, ni todos ellos pueden entenderse si no...
Ediciones Cátedra, 2016. — 528 p. La España imperial nació de forma convulsiva a través de una crisis que, una vez superada, permitió el advenimiento de un régimen autoritario y castellano basado en una unión incuestionable del trono y el altar. Desgarrada entre las solicitaciones imperiales europeas del emperador y las urgencias de su propia construcción en tanto que imperio...
University of Texas Press, 2003. — 332 p. As Spain consolidated its Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or "Vir" went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the "abominable crime and sin against nature" - sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came to rank second only to heresy as a cause...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 282 p. Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources James Casey explores two major themes in Spanish historiography - the consequences of the expulsion of the Moriscos (heavily concentrated in Valencia in the early seventeenth century), and the way in which the Habsburg Monarchy kept or lost control over its peripheral provinces. The study ranges...
Routledge, 2010. — 185 p. Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues that rather trying to impose obedience or enclosure on women of their own rank and status, noblemen in early modern Spain depended on the active collaboration of noblewomen to maintain and expand their authority, wealth, and influence. While the image of virtuous, secluded, silent, and...
Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2019. — 272 p. Edward Cooper aporta en este libro una sólida investigación genealógica (incluida en forma gráfica), documentación hasta ahora no catalogada, un prolijo conocimiento del terreno –de los edificios, la topografía, las prioridades agropecuarias de la época– y la visión de una nueva epistemología de los datos que pone en tela de...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. — 288 p. Spain as a political entity can be traced to the joining of the two largest Iberian kingdoms through the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1469. Over the course of the next centuries, Spain rose to European dominance, presided over the world's largest empire, and saw its power and wealth decline until it...
Manchester University Press, 2011. — 255 p. This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish empire in the years 1750-1850. During this period, Spain made strenuous efforts to survey, inventory and exploit the natural productions of her overseas possessions, orchestrating a series of scientific expeditions and cultivating and displaying American fauna and flora in...
Wien; Köln; Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2016. — 450 p. — (Wirtschafts- und Sozialhistorische Studien, Band 19). — ISBN: 978-3-412-22536-0. In early modern times, the city of Seville was the most important entrepôt between the Old and the New World, attracting numerous merchants from all of Europe. They provided the American market with European merchandise, especially with textiles...
Routledge, 2016. — 322 p. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Early Modern Festivals. These spectacles articulated the self-image of ruling elites and played out the tensions of the diverse social strata. Responding to the growing academic interest in festivals this volume focuses on the early modern Iberian world, in particular the spectacles staged by...
Longman, 1994. — 142 p. 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...
Longman, 1994. — 142 p. 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...
Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1968. — 216 s. "List z podróży do Hiszpanii". Koncepcja życia. Madryt, dwór, miasto. Sewilla i odblask Indii Kastylijskich. Życie w mieście i na wsi. Kościół i życie religijne. Życie publiczne. Święta i rozrywki ludowe. Życie domowe. Kobieta i ognisko rodzinne. Życie uniwersyteckie i świat literacki. Życie wojskowe. Życie pikarejskie.
Brill, 2019. — xii, 218 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 68). Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain accounts for the representation of violent and complex murders, analysing the role of the criminal, its portrayal through rhetorical devices, and its cultural and aesthetic impact. Proteic traits allow for an understanding of how crime is constructed within the...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 286 p. Via rigorous study of the legal arguments Spain developed to justify its acts of war and conquest, The Other Side of Empire illuminates Spain's expansionary ventures in the Mediterranean in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Andrew Devereux proposes and explores an important yet hitherto unstudied connection between the...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 286 p. Via rigorous study of the legal arguments Spain developed to justify its acts of war and conquest, The Other Side of Empire illuminates Spain's expansionary ventures in the Mediterranean in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Andrew Devereux proposes and explores an important yet hitherto unstudied connection between the...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. — 262 p. Facing persecution in early modern England, some Catholics chose exile over conformity. Some even cast their lot with foreign monarchs rather than wait for their own rulers to have a change of heart. This book studies the relationship forged by English exiles and Philip II of Spain. It shows how these expatriates, known as the...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 608 p. 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...
Yale University Press, 1986. — 734 p. Don Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (1587-1645), was the principal minister and favourite of Philip IV of Spain, and for two decades he guided the destinies of the country that was still the greatest power in the world. A dominant figure in the Europe of the Thirty Years' War, he struggled to maintain Spanish hegemony at a time...
Penguin Books, 2002. — 290 p. Prologue The Union of the Crowns Origins of the union The two Crowns The decline of the Crown of Aragon. Unequal partners Reconquest and Conquest The Reconquista completed The advance into Africa Medieval antecedents. Conquest Settlement The Ordering of Spain The ‘new monarchy’ The assertion of royal authority in Castile The Church and the Faith...
Routledge, 2020. — 248 p. — (Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts). This book explores the political construction of imperial frontiers during the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean. Contrary to many studies on this topic, this book neither focuses on a specific frontier nor attempts to provide an overview of...
Leuven University Press, 2021. — 389 p. Julián Romero, Sancho Dávila, Cristóbal de Mondragón, and Francisco de Valdés were prominent Spanish military commanders during the first decade of the Revolt in the Low Countries (1567–1577). Occupying key positions in this conflict, they featured as central characters in various war narratives and episodical descriptions of the events...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2010 — 256 p. — ISBN10: 8497639219, ISBN13: 978-8497639217 Arranca el siglo XVIII y una nueva dinastía inicia su andadura con Felipe V para culminar con Carlos III y la Ilustración. Los ilustrados Floridablanca, Campomanes o Esquilache (que dará nombre al famoso motín), no lograrán imponer sus tesis. Tras la Revolución Francesa (1789), Napoleón ambicionó...
Reaktion Books, 2024. — 480 p. Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain's engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the...
Reaktion Books, 2024. — 480 p. Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain's engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. — 240 p. Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of El Escorial. However, neither the king’s monastery nor his collections fully convey the rich artistic landscape of early modern Iberia. In this book, Laura Fernández-González examines...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 340 p. Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century. A royal marriage united Castile and Aragon, its two largest kingdoms. The last Muslim emirate on the Iberian Peninsula fell to Spanish Catholic armies. And conquests in the Americas were turning Spain into a great empire. Yet few in this period of flourishing Spanish power could...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 224 p. This book examines the deep and lengthy crisis of legitimacy triggered by the death of Prince Juan of Castile and Aragon in 1497 and the subsequent ascent of Juana I to the throne in 1504. Confined by historiography and myth to the madwoman’s attic, Juana emerges here as a key figure at the heart of a period of tremendous upheaval, reaching...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. — 274 p. This book analyses royal education in nineteenth-century, constitutional Spain. Its main subjects are Isabel II (1830- 1904), Alfonso XII (1857-1885) and Alfonso XIII (1886-1941) during their time as monarchs-in-waiting. Their upbringing was considered an opportunity to shape the future of Spain, reflected the political struggles that emerged...
Penn State University Press, 2008. — 256 p. Chivalry and the Perfect Prince is a survey of the ceremonial armor crafted for the Spanish Habsburg monarchs of the sixteenth century. It examines notable tournaments and pageantry held at the courts of Charles V and Philip II, and the artworks associated with them. Braden Frieder guides the reader through these tournaments,...
Penn State University Press, 2008. — 256 p. Chivalry and the Perfect Prince is a survey of the ceremonial armor crafted for the Spanish Habsburg monarchs of the sixteenth century. It examines notable tournaments and pageantry held at the courts of Charles V and Philip II, and the artworks associated with them. Braden Frieder guides the reader through these tournaments,...
Louisiana State University Press, 2021. — 384 p. Edited by art historian Noelia García Pérez, this first-ever collection of essays on Juana of Austria, the younger daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and sister to Philip II of Spain, offers an interdisciplinary study of the Habsburg princess that addresses her political, religious, and artistic dimensions. The volume’s...
Brill Academic, 2014. — 504 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 56). The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain offers a multi-perspective study of the forced migration and diaspora of the crypto-Muslim minority in the Mediterranean in the first half of the 17th century. By recontextualizing the unhappy events of 1609-1614 in an international context and by...
Routledge, 2021. — 255 p. — (Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts). This book explains how Genoese entrepreneurs transformed the structures of global trade during the second half of the seventeenth century. The author reconstructs the business network built by the Genoese merchant Domenico Grillo between the 1650s and the 1680s. Grillo’s business interests stretched...
London & New York, Routledge, 2023. — 270 p. Providing a novel research methodology for students and scholars with an interest in dynasties, at all levels, this book explores the Spanish Habsburg dynasty that ruled the Spanish monarchy between c. 1515 and 1700. Instead of focusing on the reigns of successive kings, the book focuses on the Habsburgs as a family group that was...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 288 p. The nineteenth-century Hispanic world was shattered to its core by war, civil war, and revolution. At the same time, it confronted a new period of European and North-American expansion and development. In these essays, authors explore major, dynamic ways that people in Spain envisaged how they would adapt and change, or simply...
Bloomsbury, 2016. — 608 p. In the sixteenth century, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have worldwide reach--across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and India. The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to...
Nowtilus, 2014. — 290 p. La historia de los Borbones tiene una innegable relevancia actual en la historia de España, es una dinastía que ha sabido mantener sus señas de identidad y perpetuarse con más o menos luces y más o menos sombras hasta la actualidad, renovándose cuando ha sido preciso gracias a su fabulosa capacidad de adaptación y su diplomacia. Campechanos, adúlteros...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 368 p. Spanish monarchs recognized the jurisdictions of many self-governing corporate groups, including Jews and Muslims on the peninsula, indigenous peoples in their American colonies, and enslaved and free people of African descent across the empire. Republics of Difference examines fifteenth- century Seville and sixteenth- and...
Madrid: Instituto de Historia y Cultura Militar, 2011. — 262 p. — ISSN: 0482-5748. от себя: Книга на испанском языке. "Эта монография по истории Испанской Герильи (Войны за независимость 1808-1814 гг.). Переводится буквально как "Война за независимость. Военные операции на Юго-Западе в 1810-1811-м годах. Соответственно, военные действия, описанные в этой монографии происходят...
Harvard University Press, 1934. — 464 p. Based upon years of study in Spanish archives, Professor Earl J. Hamilton’s book attacks a problem not only of historical interest but of immediate economic importance. At a time when the relations between the gold supply and the price level are being anxiously watched, it is important to know how the price indices of commodities in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1968. — 295 p. The Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon was founded by Philip V. He was Duke of Anjou and probably never expected to be raised to a rank higher than that. However King Charles II of Spain, dying without issue, willed the throne to his grand-nephew the Duke of Anjou, younger grandson of his eldest sister Marie-Thérèse, daughter of King...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1979. — 190 p. Spanish Institutions During the Eighteenth Century. The Reign of Felipe V (1700–1746). The Reign of Fernando VI (1746–1759). The Reign of Carlos III (1759–1788).
Harvard University Press, 1918. — 404 p. Besides serving as general overseer of commerce between Spain and its American possessions, as the 16th century progressed, the Casa began controlling the African slave trade, scheduling ships and shipping routes, collecting duties, and maintaining royal revenues. It also established navigational and cartography schools and began the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 304 p. In The Captive Sea , Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives - and, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Morocco - in the seventeenth century to argue that piracy, captivity, and redemption helped shape the Mediterranean as an integrated region at the social,...
University of Chicago Press, 1978. — 290 p. The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties in light of the social, economic, and political affairs at the frontiers between North...
2nd Edition. — University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 290 p. The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties in light of the social, economic, and political affairs at the...
Louisiana State University Press, 2011. — 288 p. The children of Philip III of Spain (1578--1621) and Margarita de Austria (1584--1611) inherited great potential power: the abilities to declare war or make peace, to advocate religious doctrine, and to exert lasting influence over art, culture, and taste. The leadership provided by this generation raises the question of how...
Press Holdings International, 2003. — 555 p. A detailed biography of the Spanish early modern monarch with the long, tragic face which was a passive mask hiding a raging soul within. The author hoped to make a complete history of the long reign of Philip IV, during which the final seal of decline was stamped indelibly upon the proud Spanish empire handed down by the great...
Routledge, 2000. — 159 p. The rise of Spain from obscurity to the position of one of Europe's greatest powers is centrally important in the history of Western Europe in the sixteenth century. Spain, 1474–1598 explores key themes including the unification of Spain and the domestic and foreign policies of each of the monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, Charles V and Philip II. This...
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 265 p. Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of narrative fiction, theatre, and poetry were attuned to these debates, and religious...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 390 p. This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers, but as Christian humanists, mystics and evangelists, who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice, merit, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 390 p. This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers, but as Christian humanists, mystics and evangelists, who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice, merit, and...
The Hambledon Press, 1997. — 455 p. The Court of Albert and Isabella, 1598-1621 Garrisons and Empire: Spain's Strongholds in North-West Germany, 1589-1659 A Spanish Project to Defeat the Dutch without Fighting: The Rhine-Maas Canal, 1624-9 Olivares, the Cardinal-Infante and Spain's Strategy in the Low Countries: The Road to Rocroi, 1635-43 Art and Diplomacy: Gerard Ter Borch...
Brill, 2021. — 320 p. — (History of European Political and Constitutional Thought 5). This book reconfigures the study of the origins of the Enlightenment in the Spanish Empire. Challenging dominant interpretations of the period, this book shows that early eighteenth-century Spanish authors turned to Enlightenment ideas to reinvent Spain’s role in the European balance of power....
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 376 p. Power and propaganda: the world of the court Twin souls: monarchs and favourites in early seventeenth century Spain Antonio Feros Taxation and political culture in Castile, 1590-1640 Charles J. Jago Clio and the crown: writing history in Habsburg Spain Richard L. Kagan The pattern of society: community and identity in Habsburg Spain...
Brill, 2018. — 698 p. — (The Renaissance Society of America 11). A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. Its introduction, "A Renaissance for the 'Spanish Renaissance'?" will be sure to incite polemic across a broad spectrum of academic fields. This...
Brill, 2010. — 538 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 19). The “canon” of Hispanic mysticism is expanding. No longer is our picture of this special brand of early modern devotional practice limited to a handful of venerable saints. Instead, we recognize a wide range of “marginal” figures as practitioners of mysticism, broadly defined. Neither do we limit the...
Perennial, 2004. — 659 p. 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...
Perennial, 2004. — 659 p. 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...
Yale University Press, 1999. — 400 p. Philip II of Spain―ruler of the most extensive empire the world had ever known―has been viewed in a harsh and negative light since his death in 1598. Identified with repression, bigotry, and fanaticism by his enemies, he has been judged more by the political events of his reign than by his person. This book, published four hundred years...
Yale University Press, 1999. — 400 p. Philip II of Spain - ruler of the most extensive empire the world had ever known―has been viewed in a harsh and negative light since his death in 1598. Identified with repression, bigotry, and fanaticism by his enemies, he has been judged more by the political events of his reign than by his person. This book, published four hundred years...
Longman, 2005. — 369 p. In this classic text Henry Kamen shows how Spain achieved world power in the sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries by examining crucial political events and foreign policy during the reigns of each of the nation’s rulers, from Ferdinand and Isabella at the end of the fifteenth century to Philip V at the beginning of the eighteenth...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 297 p. — (Ideas in Context 144). Exploring reason of state in a global monarchy, The Power of Necessity examines how thinkers and agents in the Spanish monarchy navigated the tension between political pragmatism and moral-religious principle. This tension lies at the very heart of Counter-Reformation reason of state. Nowhere was the need for...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. — 255 p. The Spanish Armada conjures up images of age-old rivalries, bravery and treachery. However the same Spanish monarch who sent the Armada to invade England in 1588 was, just a few years previously, the King of England and husband of Mary Tudor. This important new book sheds new light on Philip II of Spain, England's forgotten sovereign....
University of New Mexico Press, 1998. — 221 p. This volume is the first to use treasury records to analyze and interpret the evolution of royal income and expenditure in Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia during the eighteenth century. These official statistics are invaluable for defining the economic evolution of Spanish America. Understanding the economic history of these key regions...
Liverpool University Press, 2014. — 205 p. Imperial Emotions reconsiders the historical legacy of Spain’s empire by examining the role of emotions in mitigating it. Javier Krauel cogently argues that the fall of the Spanish empire in the late nineteenth century spurred a number of contradictory responses, ranging from mourning and melancholia to indignation, pride, and shame....
Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2018. — 507 p. El atlántico español durante el siglo XVIII destaca el juego entre España y América mientras el imperio español luchaba por sobrevivir en la feroz competencia internacional que dominó el siglo dieciocho. Los autores usan una amplia y profunda investigación en los repositorios de España y América, así como la innovadora consulta...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 401 p. This volume elucidates Bourbon colonial policy with emphasis on Madrid's efforts to reform and modernize its American holdings. Set in an Atlantic world context, the book highlights the interplay between Spain and America as the Spanish empire struggled for survival amid the fierce international competition that dominated the...
Routledge, 2005. — 375 p. While the simultaneously creative and destructive forces of modernity in Western Europe have been well studied, the case of Spain has often been overlooked. Visualizing Spanish Modernity concentrates on the time period 1868-1939, which marks not only the beginning of the formation of a modern economy and the consolidation of the liberal state, but also...
Routledge, 2020. — 212 p. Nineteenth century Spain deserves wider readership. Bedevilled by lost empires, wars, political instability and frustrated modernisation, the country appeared backward in relation to northern Europe and even in relation to much of its own geographical periphery. This new history, the first survey of its kind in English in more than a hundred years,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 296 p. In the medieval and early modern periods, Spain shaped a global empire from scattered territories spanning Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Historians either have studied this empire piecemeal—one territory at a time—or have focused on monarchs endeavoring to mandate the allegiance of far-flung territories to the crown. For...
University of Texas Press, 1972. — 496 p. In November 1532, a group of 168 Spaniards seized the Inca emperor Atahuallpa in the town of Cajamarca, in the northern Peruvian highlands. Their act, quickly taken as a symbol of the conquest of a vast empire, brought them unprecedented rewards in gold and silver; it made them celebrities, gave them first choice of positions of honor...
Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2017. — 435 p. Frances Luttikhuizen chronicles the arrival, reception, and suppression of Protestant thought in sixteenth century Spain-referred to at that time as 'Lutheranism'. It opens with several chapters describing the socio-political-religious context that prevailed in Spain at the beginning of the sixteenth century and the growing trend to use...
Crítica, 1999. — 412 p.
John Lynch nos ofrece en este libro una rica y amplia panorámica de la España del siglo XVIII, y de su imperio americano, considerada en todas sus dimensiones -la política, la economía, las transformaciones sociales, la cultura- y que algunos críticos han señalado ya como la mejor visión de conjunto de esta época que se haya publicado hasta hoy. Lo cual...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 410 p. Between Court and Confessional explores the lives of Spanish inquisitors, closely examining the careers and writings of five sixteenth- and seventeenth-century inquisitors. Kimberly Lynn considers what shaped particular inquisitors, what kinds of official experience each accumulated, and to what ends each directed his acquired...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 320 p. Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665 presents a study of the later years of the reign of Philip IV from the perspective of his favourite (valido), don Luis Mendez de Haro, and of the other ministers who helped govern the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy. It offers a positive vision of a period that is...
Yale University Press, 1970. — 469 p. Land Tenure in Twentieth-Century Spain. The Geographical and Historical Setting of the Latifundios. The Social Structure of Southern Spain: The Rural Oligarchy. The Social Structure of Southern Spain: The Rural Proletariat. The Agrarian Problem Prior to the Republic. The First Months of the Republic. The Azaña Government in Search of an...
Nowtilus, 2011. — 320 p. La sorprendente vida de uno de los personajes femeninos más notables de la historia. Última monarca de la dinastía Trastámara, hija y nieta de reyes, madre de reyes y emperadores, que fue víctima de un mundo de hombres poderosos y nunca pudo reinar. Un fascinante recorrido por el contexto histórico de una reina vapuleada por el ansia de poder, el amor,...
Espasa, 1998. — 70 p. La obra de G. Marañón no es de historia del uso sino un retrato sicofísico del que fue Valido durante casi dos décadas de Felipe IV y sobre todo un panorama general de la situación de las Españas en la época. Como siempre, Marañón escribe con un estilo claro, límpido y elegante, una delicia. La caracterización médica de Olivares como un pícnico ciclotímico...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 338 p. This book incorporates recent, rich literature on the history of the fiscal organization and financial dynamics of the Spanish empire within the broader historical debates on rival European imperial states in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The focus is on colonial Mexico because it served as a fiscal and...
Routledge, 2021. — 444 p. The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spain brings together an international team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume that redefines nineteenth-century Spain in a multi-national, multi-lingual, and transnational way. This interdisciplinary volume examines questions moving beyond the traditional concept...
Routledge, 2021. — 460 p. The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) brings together an international team of scholars to explore new interdisciplinary and comparative approaches for the study of colonialism. Using four overarching themes, the volume examines a wide array of critical issues, key texts, and figures that...
Cambridge University Press, 1983. — 284 p. In this book Linda Martz explores the major developments in the theory and practice of poor relief in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and determines how far Spanish attitudes to poverty compared with those of other countries in western Europe. This scholarly and lucid exploration of attitudes to poverty and welfare has been...
Bucknell University Press, 2013. — 368 p. Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World explores the representation of political, economic, military, religious, and juridical power in texts and artifacts from early modern Spain and her American viceroyalties. In addition to analyzing the dynamics of power in written texts, chapters also examine pieces of material culture...
Bucknell University Press, 2013. — 368 p. Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World explores the representation of political, economic, military, religious, and juridical power in texts and artifacts from early modern Spain and her American viceroyalties. In addition to analyzing the dynamics of power in written texts, chapters also examine pieces of material culture...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 216 p. Most recent studies have revealed the existence of a huge social mobility in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries, despite what had been believed according to the previous historiographical consensus. The archive research carried out by various specialists –and above all by Dr. Enrique Soria Mesa and his team– has been decisive in this discovery....
LSU Press, 2015. — 384 p. The food markets of Barcelona host thousands of customers daily, from tourists eager to sample fresh fruits and grilled seafood to neighborhood cooks in search of high-quality ingredients. While other countries experienced major shifts away from the public-market model in the twentieth century, Barcelona's food markets remained fundamental to the...
Brill, 2020. — xx, 359 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 75). In Mulatto · Outlaw · Pilgrim · Priest, John K. Moore, Jr. presents the first in-depth study, critical edition, and scholarly translation of His Majesty’s Representative v. José Soller, Mulatto Pilgrim, for Impersonating a Priest and Other Crimes. This legal case dates to the waning days of the...
Ediciones Cátedra, 2014. — 482 p. El año 1714 es fecha clave para un nacionalismo catalán que conmemora los trescientos años de la derrota del archiduque Carlos de Austria frente a Felipe de Borbón en su disputa por el trono de España. Ese año se ponía fin a la guerra de sucesión a la corona española, primera de las que con este carácter asolaron Europa en la centuria ilustrada...
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 330 p. The Iberian conquest of the Atlantic at the beginning of the sixteenth century had a notable impact on the formation of the new world order in which Christian Europe claimed control over most a considerable part of the planet. This was possible thanks to the confluence of different and inseparable factors: the development of new...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 440 p. Spain’s infamous “false chronicles” were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Román de la Higuera. Though rife with anachronisms and chronological inaccuracies, these four volumes of invented “truths” about...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2018. — 288 p. Descubra los apasionantes inicios de la Europa moderna a través de la vida del emperador Carlos V, en cuya persona se aunó el cetro imperial alemán y la corona de la Monarquía Hispánica. Un recorrido histórico completo por los principales aspectos políticos, sociales y económicos de esta turbulenta época y el arte y cultura de este brillante...
Yale University Press, 1990. — 192 p. From the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Spain was regarded as a unique social and political community -- the most exalted, the most feared, the most despised, and the most discussed since the Roman Empire. In this important book, Anthony Pagden offers an incisive analysis of the lasting influence of the Spanish Empire in...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 489 p. Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins with his conception (1526) and ends with...
Yale University Press, 1998. — 445 p. In this captivating book, Geoffrey Parker investigates the strengths and weaknesses of Philip's strategic vision, the priorities that underlay his policies, the practices and prjudices that influenced his decision-making, and the external factors that affected the achievement of his goals. In so doing, Parker provides a fascinating...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. — 320 p. The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three hundred years before breaking up in the early nineteenth century in civil...
Sussex Academic Press, 2017. — 215 p. The Second Spanish Republic (1931-1936) was the only new liberal democratic regime to emerge in Europe during the 1930s. Historians, however, have focused primarily on the Civil War of 1936-1939 that followed, devoting much less attention to the parliamentary regime that preceded it. This book deals with the history and failure of the...
University of Wales Press, 2021. — 352 p. The analysis of land management, lineage, and family through the case study of early modern Spanish nobility from sixteenth to early nineteenth century is a major issue in recent historiography. It aims to shed light on how upper social classes arranged strategies to maintain their political and economic status. Rivalry and disputes...
Brill, 2008. — 272 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 141). The Castilian Assembly of the Clergy has been overlooked in the scholarship on church-state relations and representative institutions in the early modern period. This oversight has distorted our understanding of political practice, royal finance, and church-state relations in sixteenth-century...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. — 304 p. Philip II is a fascinating and enigmatic figure in Spanish history, but it was his letrados--professional bureaucrats and ministers trained in law--who made his vast castilian empire possible. In Juan de Ovando, Stafford Poole traces the life and career of a key minister in the king's government to explore the role that letrados...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 282 p. While scholars have marvelled at how accused witches, mystical nuns, and aristocratic women understood and used their wealth, power, and authority to manipulate both men and institutions, most early modern women were not privileged by money or supernatural contacts. They led the routine and often difficult lives of peasant women and wives...
Routledge, 1988. — 144 p. Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor and, until his death in 1558, he was to play a central role on the European political stage. The book is a clear introduction to the often confusing train of events in the first half of the sixteenth century. It looks at Charles's response to the Protestant Reformation in Germany; his efforts to retain the...
Yale University Press 2023. — 336 p. — eBook ISBN: 978-0-300-27175-1. An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond. Spain’s transition to democracy after Franco’s long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political...
Routledge, 1999. — 264 p. This study focuses on Spain's shift of emphasis from Latin America to the Mediterranean basin after the loss of its last colonies in the New World in 1898. The contributors analyse the Mediterranean policies of Spain's different regimes.
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 260 p. By tracing the dramatic spread of horses throughout the Americas, Feral Empire explores how horses shaped society and politics during the first century of Spanish conquest and colonization. It defines a culture of the horse in medieval and early modern Spain which, when introduced to the New World, left its imprint in colonial...
George Mason University Press, 1986. — 255 p. Spain during the Last Years of the Constitutional Regime. The Regime. Local Government. Attempts at a New Compact. Finances. Transportation and Energy. Industry, Agriculture, and the Dictatorship’s Economy Legacy. Palliatives. Corporate Labor Organization. Education. The Social Situation at the End of the Dictatorship.
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 455 p. In his important new study, David Ringrose reexamines the history of Spain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He challenges the conventional ways of framing that history, questions the importance of the empire for peninsular Spain, and suggests that some of the seemingly dramatic modernization of the nineteenth century was...
Reaktion Books, 2022. — 464 p. A sumptuous history of Golden Age Spain that explores the irresistible tension between heavenly and earthly realms. Incomparable Realms offers a vision of Spanish culture and society during the so-called Golden Age, the period from 1500 to 1700 when Spain unexpectedly rose to become the dominant European power. But in what ways was this a Golden...
Reaktion Books, 2022. — 464 p. A sumptuous history of Golden Age Spain that explores the irresistible tension between heavenly and earthly realms. Incomparable Realms offers a vision of Spanish culture and society during the so-called Golden Age, the period from 1500 to 1700 when Spain unexpectedly rose to become the dominant European power. But in what ways was this a Golden...
Barcelona. "Establecimiento tipografica", "La enciclopedia democratica." 1895, - 854 p. От себя: "Данный фундаментальный труд по военной истории Испании, в частности по истории национально-освободительной войны против Франции 1808-1814 гг, является одним из венцов научного творчества виднейших военных историков Испании конца 19 века. Монография на испанском языке, на старой,...
Barcelona. "Establecimiento tipografica", "La enciclopedia democratica." 1895, - 870 p.
От себя:
"Данный фундаментальный труд по военной истории Испании, в частности по истории национально-освободительной войны против Франции 1808-1814 гг, является одним из венцов научного творчества виднейших военных историков Испании конца 19 века. Монография на испанском языке, на старой,...
Routledge, 2020. — 358 p. By exploring textual, visual and material culture, this volume presents a range of new research into the experiences, agencies and diverse political identities of Iberian women between the fifteenth and early-eighteenth century. Representing Women’s Political Identity in the Early Modern Iberian World explores how the political identities of Iberian...
Routledge, 1999. — 250 p. Acknowledgements The outbreak of war: Spain and her official neutrality The Romanones administration: the domestic challenge The labour movement The bourgeoisie The army The Romanones administration: the international challenge The gathering storm: the Praetorian insurrection Two parliaments in one country: the revolution from above The hot August of...
Universidade Carlos III de Madrid, 2020. — 295 p. En el año 1606, Gil González Dávila publicaba una de las primeras Historias de la ciudad de Salamanca. En ella hablaba de la Universidad como la “República de sabios”, una metáfora que describía la importancia del profesorado en ese momento. Precisamente La República de sabios. Profesores, cátedras y universidad en la Salamanca...
Routledge, 2017. — 362 p. Beginning with the Black Death in 1348 and extending through to the demise of Habsburg rule in 1700, this second edition of Spanish Society, 1348–1700 has been expanded to provide a wide and compelling exploration of Spain’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. Each chapter builds on the first edition by offering new evidence of the changes in...
Springer, 2017. — 223 p. This book offers a novel interdisciplinary approach to interpret the emergence of the Basque-Spanish nationalist conflict. It incorporates into sociological analysis the understanding of law put forward by legal realism and legal pluralism to answer some of the most pressing problems encountered in historical research on this topic. It does so by...
Marcial Pons Historia, 2011. — 486 p. La época de la Guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814) ha sido estudiada esencialmente a través de dos vías: la primera de ellas sitúa el conflicto militar en el eje del discurso y se aproxima a lo acontecido desde la perspectiva del enfrentamiento armado; la otra centra su atención en el proceso político que llevó desde las juntas de los...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0199207364; ISBN13: 978-0199207367. This title examines the fate which overtook the principality of Catalonia in the fifteenth century, reducing it from the dominant power within the state of Aragon to a marginal role in the Iberian power created by the union of Aragon and Castile. The coming storm A Fine, Well-Ordered...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 273 p. List of Figures and Table Anticlericalism in Modern Spain and Europe: Struggles over Nation-Building José Nakens Within the New Politics and Nationalist/Republican Culture José Nakens and Republican Anticlericalism: Making an Anticlerical-Nationalist Tradition Republicanism, Anarchism, Anticlericalism, and the Attempted Regicide of 1906 The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 272 p. Historically, Spain has often been represented as a financial failure, a state limited by its absolutist monarchy and doomed to fiscal and financial failure without hope of lasting growth. The collapse of the Spanish state at the beginning of the nineteenth century would seem to bear out this view of the limitations of Spain's absolutist...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. — 297 p. As Spain rebuilt its colonial regime in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish American revolutions, it turned to history to justify continued dominance. The metropolitan vision of history, however, always met with opposition in the colonies. The Conquest of History examines how historians, officials, and civic...
Editorial Complutense, 2008. — 179 p. Es el caso de la leyenda negra de España, una imagen negativa de los españoles que se creó a través de la propaganda neerlandesa en la Guerra de Ochenta Años y que se difundió desde Flandes por toda Europa, dejando una huella muy perdurable en el tiempo.
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 245 p. The Basque Seroras explores the intersections between local community, women's work, and religious reform in early modern northern Spain. Amanda L. Scott illuminates the lives of these uncloistered religious women, who took no vows and were free to leave the religious life if they chose. Their vocation afforded them considerably more...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. — 240 p. In the late eighteenth century, enlightened politicians and upper-class women in Spain debated the right of women to join one of the country’s most prominent scientific institutions: the Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country. Societies such as these, as Elena Serrano describes in her book, were founded on the idea that...
University of Illinois Press, 1987. — 182 p. Rural Society/Migration, and the Mixed Worker. The Working Life. The Conditions of Social Life. Morality, Discipline, and Social Control. From the First Strike to the Seven-Hour Day, 1873-1919. Depression and Dictatorship, 1920-1930. The Republican Illusion,. 1931-1934. Asturias, October 1934.
University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 480 p. Born into obscurity in a rural backwater of central Spain in the waning years of the eighteenth century, Baldomero Espartero (1793–1879) led a life resembling that of a character created by Stendhal or Gabriel García Márquez. As a seventy-five-year-old man he was offered – and turned down – the throne of an industrializing nation....
University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 480 p. Born into obscurity in a rural backwater of central Spain in the waning years of the eighteenth century, Baldomero Espartero (1793–1879) led a life resembling that of a character created by Stendhal or Gabriel García Márquez. As a seventy-five-year-old man he was offered – and turned down – the throne of an industrializing nation....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 318 p. - Explores different forms of forensic theatricality in literature about slavery - Focuses on literary explorations of slavery and human rights in the Spanish Empire - Contributes to the growing body of research on literature, human rights and the history of slavery This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 318 p. - Explores different forms of forensic theatricality in literature about slavery - Focuses on literary explorations of slavery and human rights in the Spanish Empire - Contributes to the growing body of research on literature, human rights and the history of slavery This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 317 p. In this distinctive new history of the origins of the Spanish Civil War, James Simpson and Juan Carmona tackle the highly-debated issue of why it was that Spain's democratic Second Republic failed. They explore the interconnections between economic growth, state capacity, rural social mobility and the creation of mass competitive...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 290 p. An exploration of the causes of the growing schism within Spanish society between 1914-1923, and the political polarisation and social violence that culminated in the Spanish Civil War. Essays analyse the crisis and eventual downfall of Spain's elitist liberal order and its replacement by an authoritarian dictatorship.
Track of the Wolf Co, Inc. St. Louis, 1990. — 80 p.
Track of the Wolf Co, Inc. St. Louis, 1990. 80 pgs. This book on "Las Companías de la Infantería de las Américas" contains illustrations and descriptions of Spanish uniforms, weapons and historical items of the royal troops in colonial America and during the French and Indian wars. It follows in the path of Sketchbook '76...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. — 807 p. The capstone of a research endeavor begun by Barbara Stein and Stanley Stein nearly sixty years ago, this volume concludes their masterful tetralogy on Spanish economic and Atlantic history. With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 288 p. Spain’s Armies Spanish Naval Power Spanish Finance Spanish Politics and Government Centre and Periphery in the Spanish Monarchy
Yale University Press, 2017. — 328 p. This work considers the extraordinary revival of Spanish power following the War of the Spanish Succession. A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish state. Often dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated by his second wife, Philip V of Spain (1700–1746), the first Bourbon king, was in...
ABC-CLIO, 2016. — 325 p. Through reference entries and primary documents, this book surveys a wide range of topics related to the history of the Spanish Empire, including past events and individuals as well as the Iberian kingdom's imperial legacy. The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia provides students as well as anyone interested in Spain, Latin America, or empires in...
ABC-CLIO, 2016. — 338 p. Through reference entries and primary documents, this book surveys a wide range of topics related to the history of the Spanish Empire, including past events and individuals as well as the Iberian kingdom's imperial legacy. The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia provides students as well as anyone interested in Spain, Latin America, or empires in...
Brill, 2020. — 375 p. — (Brill's Companions to European History 21). This Companion aims to give an up-to-date overview of the historical context and the conceptual framework of Spanish imperial expansion during the early modern period, mostly during the 16th century. It intends to offer a nuanced and balanced account ofthe complexities of this historically controversial period...
Random House Publishing Group, 2013. — 646 p. From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder. At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought the French and expanded the...
Random House Publishing Group, 2015. — 463 p. The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. Chief among them is the towering figure of King Philip II, the cultivated Spanish monarch whom a contemporary once called "the arbiter of the world." Cheerful and pious, he inherited vast authority from his father, but nevertheless felt himself unworthy to wield it. His...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 374 p. This book challenges the view of Spain as backward, 'timeless' and isolated from wider European movements; impervious to modernity. By tracing the diffusion of democratic ideas and republican associations in the towns and villages of eastern Andalucia between 1854 and 1875, Spain is shown to have shared fully in Europe's mid-nineteenth century...
Northwestern University Press, 2018. — 241 p. The Sublime South: Andalusia, Orientalism, and the Making of Modern Spain is the first systematic study on cultural images of Andalusia as Spain’s “Orient” and the impact they have had on nation-building and modernization since the late nineteenth century. While a wealth of studies have examined how northern Europeans from the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 194 p. At the end of the eighteenth century, a calico craze swept the Atlantic world. Calico, originally from India, was a fine cotton cloth painted in attractive, colorful, and flowery motif designs. Its exotic name recalled the Indian town of Calicut, where the fabric originally came from. Elsewhere, the cloth’s name offered a more generic appeal...
The Catalan Wargames Resource, 2010. — 48 p. — (Wargaming Guides Series No 1). Nonfiction history book. This is a guide to the armies and uniforms of the Catalan Amy during the War of Spanish Succession.
LSU Press, 2008. — 177 p. In the late 1890s a journalist wrote, "Spanish women would rather weep at a husband's or a son's gravesite than blush for lack of patriotic fervor." Yet at a time when women were expected to sacrifice their sons and husbands willingly for the sake of the nation, women organized and led three significant demonstrations against conscription in Spain. In...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 239 p. In Italy, the powerful Borromeo family of Milan have long been held up as a rare example of paternalist aristocrats who withstood the temptations of self-enrichment so many of their peers succumbed to during the period of Spanish rule. Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy, the first major study of the family in the seventeenth...
Brill Academic, 2015. — 287 р. — (Brill's Series in the History of the Environment 4). Roots of Empire is the first monograph to connect forest management and state-building in the early modern Spanish global monarchy. The Spanish crown's control over valuable sources of shipbuilding timber in Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines was critical for developing and sustaining...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2010. — 256 p. Pudiera parecer que del Siglo de Oro se ha escrito todo lo que se podía escribir, una época esencial en nuestra historia y grabada en nuestra información genética, cualquier español sabe que hubo una época en la que nuestro país tuvo la hegemonía política, económica y artística mundial. Pero Miguel Zorita nos muestra que aún quedan parcelas de...
Ленинград: Наука, 1976. — 365 с. — (Литературные памятники). В 1845 г. писатель и критик В.П. Боткин (1811-1869) совершил путешествие по Пиренейскому полуострову и северо-западной Африке. Письма об Испании - его письма оттуда, отличаются яркостью описаний социально-политической, бытовой и культурной жизни страны. Том Литературных памятников является первым научным изданием...
Ленинград: Наука, 1976. — 365 с. — (Литературные памятники).
В 1845 г. писатель и критик В.П. Боткин (1811-1869) совершил путешествие по Пиренейскому полуострову и северо-западной Африке. Письма об Испании - его письма оттуда, отличаются яркостью описаний социально-политической, бытовой и культурной жизни страны.
Том Литературных памятников является первым научным изданием...
СПб., 1896. — 165 с. Серия научно-популярных брошюр Е.Н.Водовозовой (1844—1923) "Как люди на белом свете живут" дает описание наиболее характерных народов Западной Европы: описание природы, нравов, умственного развития и экономического положения народа, а также государственного устройства. Успеху этого труда содействует беллетристический талант Водовозовой.
М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1957. — 454 с.
Предисловие
Испания накануне 1808 г.
Экономические и социальные отношения
Политические отношения
Наполеон и Бурбоны (1808)
Борьба с Наполеоном и первая революция (1808—1814)
Фронт
Тыл
Контрреволюция (1814—1820)
Вторая революция (1820—1823)
О формах классовой борьбы в Испании
Восстание Риего...
СПб: Типография Н.А. Лебедева, 1884. — 300 с.
Испанские путевые очерки Даниила Лукича Мордовцева, русского и украинского писателя и историка.
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Museo геаl.—Мадонны Мурильо —Московскій бояринъ.— «Звонъ гитары».
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СПб.: Издание А.С. Суворина, Типография А.С. Суворина, 1902. — 966 с.
Язык: русский дореформенный
Серия испанских путевых и этнографических очерков. С 600 рисунками: Морено-Карбонеро, А. Вагнер, А. Фабрес, X. Араухо, Хосе Галлего, Мартин Рико, Робида, Ф. Франсес, Доминго Муньос, Аранда, Араньо, Энрике Серра, Переда, Диас Хуэрта, Мануэль Алькасар, Гарсиа-Рамос, Льовера,...
Санкт-Петербург: Типография Глазунова и компания, 1858. — 870 с. Американский историк 19 века Уильям Хиклинг Прескотт , автор фундаментальных работ по истории Испании XV—XVI вв. и испанского завоевания Мексики и Перу. В результате несчастного случая ослеп на один глаз. Эта проблема будет преследовать учёного всю его жизнь, поскольку напряжённые занятия приведут к полной утрате...
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