The story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European countries is a remarkable and dramatic one. With the marriage of Ferdinand & Isabella, the final expulsion of the Moslems and the discovery of America, Spain took on a seemingly unstoppable dynamism that made it into the world's first global power. This amazing success however created many powerful enemies and Elliott's famous book charts the dramatic fall of Habsburg Spain with the same elan as it charts the rise.
Imperial Spain 1469-1716
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A major work on Spanish history ("The Economist")"
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J H Elliott recently retired as Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford.
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A still unsurpassed survey of Spain's greatest age of glory and decline. To be read in conjunction with the author's other masterpiece, "The Revolt of the Catalans", recently reprinted. Well worth taking with you on a Spanish beach holiday.
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Buy the Paperback version. It is cheaper. The Kindle edition I bought had several defects. The maps are very difficult to read on the screen (very small lettering) and it is inconvenient to go back to them when you are reading. I found that some pages seemed to be duplicated which was confusing.
The style and content are excellent and the prologue pointed out that when the book was written there were very few or no studies in Spanish or other languages of this period.
The style and content are excellent and the prologue pointed out that when the book was written there were very few or no studies in Spanish or other languages of this period.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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i take 16c history for a-level and half the course is on spain, i joke with my friend that this book is our bible, i use it for referance in all my essays! it is so detailed and yet so easy to understand. it helps put everything into context.
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An authoritative work
This is the standard history of its subject. It is written in a rather dry, academic manner,and seems rather dated. Read more
Published 6 months ago by John Torrox
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A warning
This book covers administrative, economic and social history of the empire and does an excellent job at that. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Constantinus Lucius
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Fantastic single volume narrative
An excellent read if you're after a relatively brief narrative of Spanish history. Charts the rise and fall of Imperial Spain in simple yet well written prose, teasing out the... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Chris
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Imperial Spain
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Published 16 months ago by Roma Wells
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This is fantastic
I hated A Level history before I read this.
This book explains all about the history of Spain and how the Moors settled. Read more
This book explains all about the history of Spain and how the Moors settled. Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2004 by D. Simons
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Extremely uninformative
This book doesn't expand a persons knowledge as well as other books have. It is written very simply and does not express other historians views as well as is liked. Read more
Published on 8 Dec 1998
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