Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century, 1665-1700
Title | Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century, 1665-1700 PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Kamen |
Publisher | Longman Publishing Group |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Spain in the Later 17th Century (1665-1700).
Title | Spain in the Later 17th Century (1665-1700). PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Kamen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Spain |
ISBN |
The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700
Title | The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700 PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Storrs |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2006-10-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0199246378 |
Christopher Storrs presents an analysis of why Spain and its empire survived during the reign of the last Spainish Hapsburg. He argues it was not wholly due to the aid of allies but also because the state and society were clearly committed to the retention of empire.
The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700
Title | The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700 PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Storrs |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2006-10-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191514322 |
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.
Memoirs of Spain during the reigns of Philip iv. and Charles ii., 1620 to 1700
Title | Memoirs of Spain during the reigns of Philip iv. and Charles ii., 1620 to 1700 PDF eBook |
Author | John Colin Dunlop |
Publisher | |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1834 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Spain in the Seventeenth Century
Title | Spain in the Seventeenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Darby |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317897714 |
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'.
The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
Title | The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | I. A. A. Thompson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1994-06-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521416245 |
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.