Spain, Europe & the wider world, 1500-1800 /

Main Author: Elliott, J. H. 1930-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A Europe of composite monarchies
  • Learning from the enemy : early modern Britain and Spain
  • The general crisis in retrospect : a debate without end
  • A non-revolutionary society : Castile in the 1640's
  • Europe after the Peace of Westphalia
  • The seizure of overseas territories by the European powers
  • Illusion and disillusionment : Spain and the Indies
  • Britain and Spain in America : colonists and colonised
  • King and patria in the Hispanic world
  • The same world, different worlds
  • Starting afresh? : the eclipse of empire in British and Spanish America
  • El Greco's Mediterranean : the encounter of civilisations
  • Court society in seventeenth-century Europe : Madrid, Brussels, London
  • Appearance and reality in the Spain of VelaÌ걵ez.