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Spain and Its World, 1500-1700 - Selected Essays (Paperback, New Ed)
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Spain and Its World, 1500-1700 - Selected Essays (Paperback, New Ed)
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It used to be said that the sun never set on the empire of the King
of Spain. It was therefore appropriate that Emperor Charles V
should have commissioned from Battista Agnese in 1543 a world map
as a birthday present for his sixteen-year-old son, the future
Philip II. This was the world as Charles V and his successors of
the House of Austria knew it, a world crossed by the golden path of
the treasure fleets that linked Spain to the riches of the Indies.
It is this world, with Spain at its center, that forms the subject
of this book. J.H. Elliott, the pre-eminent historian of early
modern Spain and its world, originally published these essays in a
variety of books and journals. They have here been grouped into
four sections, each with an introduction outlining the
circumstances in which they were written and offering additional
reflections. The first section, on the American world, explores the
links between Spain and its American possessions. The second
section, "The European World," extends beyond the Castilian center
of the Iberian peninsula and its Catalan periphery to embrace
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe as a whole. In "The World
of the Court," the author looks at the character of the court of
the Spanish Habsburgs and the perennially uneasy relationship
between the world of political power and the world of arts and
letters. The final section is devoted to the great historical
question of the decline of Spain, a question that continues to
resonate in the Anglo-American world of today.
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