Titlebook: Golden Age Spain; Henry Kamen Textbook 1988Latest edition Henry Kamen 1988 empire.Europe.Spain

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Political Evolution,nth century the Spanish realms (one of them Muslim) were a confused collection of jurisdictions with wholly separate identities; by the early eighteenth there remained only one unitary authority, the crown of ‘Spain’. Considered thus, the change appears to be striking; but, as elsewhere in old-regime Europe, very much also remained unchanged.

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Spain as a Great Power,shine for one instant on its lands’, was the proud boast in 1655 of the writer Francisco Ugarte de Hermosa. Spanish power was the most obvious reality of European politics for over a century, and its decay in the subsequent century no less obvious. Inevitably, great-power status created hostile fore

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Conclusion,w World, the sudden inheritance of universal empire — might mislead us into searching for a unique explanation of its subsequent evolution. Like Don Quixote in his search for the fabulous, scholars have often looked for the unique ingredient that makes Spain different, and in the process have create

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