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Author : Henry Kamen
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century, 1665-1700 written by Henry Kamen and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Kamen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780582490376
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century, 1665-1700 written by Henry Kamen and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Darby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317897706
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Spain in the Seventeenth Century written by Graham Darby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christopher Storrs
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191514322
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700 written by Christopher Storrs and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : I. A. A. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521416245
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century written by I. A. A. Thompson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Colin Pendrill
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435327330
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Spain 1474-1700 written by Colin Pendrill and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Brian R. Hamnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107174643
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770-1830 written by Brian R. Hamnett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian R. Hamnett offers a comprehensive and comparative assessment of the independence era in both Spanish America and Brazil.
Author : Timothy R Walton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 156164899X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Spanish Treasure Fleets written by Timothy R Walton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the expeditions of Spanish explorers told through the history of the first American currency: pieces of eight.
Author : R. A. Stradling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521530552
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Philip IV and the Government of Spain, 1621-1665 written by R. A. Stradling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concentrates on the political history of the reign of Philip IV, and the role of the king within it. Philip is kept near the forefront, and issues and events are often seen - if sometimes critically - from his viewpoint. It is, therefore, a work of revision and rehabilitation, representing an attempt (against all other extant accounts) to establish Philip IV as a positive figure, with an autonomous character and political identity. A secondary, supportive, intention is to demonstrate that after the fall of Olivares, the king ruled and governed without a favourite (valido). This is the central theme in the most detailed treatment of the second half of the reign available in any language. Reference is made throughout to Philip's own words and actions. At the same time, the Olivares period itself is approached from a new perspective, some issues being examined with the use of new material. Although not intended as a conventional biography, the book retains several characteristics of the form, in that it is a 'career-study', part thematic, part chronological. Philip IV is examined also in relation to the political writing of the age, and to his court and capital in Madrid.
Author : María Cristina Quintero
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317129601
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia written by María Cristina Quintero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : George J Buelow
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349113034
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book The Late Baroque Era: Vol 4. From The 1680s To 1740 written by George J Buelow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the development of musical life in the great centres of European music - Paris, Vienna, London and the courts of Italy and Germany. The contributions of Handel and Bach, and their lesser colleagues are set in their historical and sociological context.
Author : David L. Graizbord
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202066
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Souls in Dispute written by David L. Graizbord and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home to a rich cultural mix of Christians, Jews, and Muslims. At the end of the fifteenth century, however, the last Islamic stronghold fell, and Jews were forced either to convert to Christianity or to face expulsion. Thousands left for other parts of Europe and Asia, eventually establishing Sephardic communities in Amsterdam, Venice, Istanbul, southwestern France, and elsewhere. More than a hundred years after the expulsion, some Judeoconversos—descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had converted to Christianity—were forced to flee the Iberian Peninsula once again to avoid ethnic and religious persecution. Many of them joined the Sephardic Diaspora and embraced rabbinic Judaism. Later some of these same people or their descendants returned to Iberian lands temporarily or permanently and, in a twist that Jewish authorities considered scandalous, reverted to Catholicism. Among them were some who betrayed their fellow conversos to the Holy Office. In Souls in Dispute, David L. Graizbord unravels this intriguing history of the renegade conversos and constructs a detailed and psychologically acute portrait of their motivations. Through a probing analysis of relevant inquisitorial documents and a wide-ranging investigation into the history of the Sephardic Diaspora and Habsburg Spain, Graizbord shows that, far from being simply reckless and vindictive, the renegades used their double acts of border crossing to negotiate a dangerous and unsteady economic environment: so long as their religious and social ambiguity remained undetected, they were rewarded with the means for material survival. In addition, Graizbord sheds new light on the conflict-ridden transformation of makeshift Jewish colonies of Iberian expatriates—especially in the borderlands of southwestern France—showing that the renegades failed to accommodate fully to a climate of conformity that transformed these Sephardic groups into disciplined communities of Jews. Ultimately, Souls in Dispute explains how and why Judeoconversos built and rebuilt their religious and social identities, and what it meant to them to be both Jewish and Christian given the constraints they faced in their time and place in history.
Author : Gregory Hanlon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429768400
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750 written by Gregory Hanlon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Fierce Pageant examines more than 200 years of international rivalry across Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean rim. The book charts the increasing scale, expenditure and duration of early modern wars; the impact of modern fortification on strategy and the movement of armies; the incidence of guerrilla war and localized conflict typical of the French wars of religion; the recourse by warlords to private financing of troops and supplies; and the creation of disciplined standing armies and navies in the age of Absolutism, made possible by larger bureaucracies. In addition to discussing key events and personalities of military rivalry during this period, the book describes the operational mechanics of early modern warfare and the crucial role of taxation and state borrowing. The relationship between the Christian West and the Ottoman Empire is also extensively analysed. Drawing heavily upon international scholarship over the past half-century, European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Fierce Pageant will be of great use to undergraduate students studying military history and early modern Europe.
Author : Andrew Konove
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520966902
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Black Market Capital written by Andrew Konove and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary new book, Andrew Konove traces the history of illicit commerce in Mexico City from the seventeenth century to the twentieth, showing how it became central to the economic and political life of the city. The story centers on the untold history of the Baratillo, the city’s infamous thieves’ market. Originating in the colonial-era Plaza Mayor, the Baratillo moved to the neighborhood of Tepito in the early twentieth century, where it grew into one of the world’s largest emporiums for black-market goods. Konove uncovers the far-reaching ties between vendors in the Baratillo and political and mercantile elites in Mexico City, revealing the surprising clout of vendors who trafficked in the shadow economy and the diverse individuals who benefited from their trade.
Author : Peter H. Wilson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111873002X
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe written by Peter H. Wilson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe. Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe Focuses on Europe while placing it within its international context Considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe
Author : Anthony J. Cascardi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052126281X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)
Download or read book The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón written by Anthony J. Cascardi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-09-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first thorough study of Calderón in comparison with other important dramatists of the period: Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina in Spain, Racine and Corneille in France, and Shakespeare and Marlowe in England. Cascardi studies Calderón's paradoxical engagement with illusion in its philosophical guise as scepticism. He shows on the one hand Calderón's moral will to reject illusion and on the other his theatrical need to embrace it. Cascardi discusses plays from every period to show how in Calderón's best work illusion is not rejected; instead, scepticism is absorbed. Calderón is placed in and defined against the philosophical line of Vives, Descartes, and Spinoza. Of central importance to this argument is Calderón's idea of theatre and the various transformations of that idea. This emphasis will give the book an additional interest to students, readers in philosophy and comparative literature.
Author : Maurice Esses
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945193081
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Dance and Instrumental Diferencias in Spain During the 17th and Early 18th Centuries: History and background, music and dance written by Maurice Esses and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1. History and background, music and dance -- v. 2. Musical transcriptions -- v. 3. The notes in Spanish and other languages from the sources.
