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The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700 (Hardcover)
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The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700 (Hardcover)
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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.
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