Imperial Spain 1469-1716
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Imperial Spain 1469-1716 for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
A major work on Spanish history ("The Economist")"
Product Description
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.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
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
Format:Paperback
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.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A warning
This book covers administrative, economic and social history of the empire and does an excellent job at that. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Constantinus Lucius
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 2 months ago by Chris
Imperial Spain
I believe this purchase was well received by my brother who lives in the UK, and I am in Australia, can say no more.
Published 4 months ago by Roma Wells
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
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
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
