Since its first publication, J. H. Elliott’s work has become established as the most comprehensive, balanced and accessible account of the dramatic rise and fall of Imperial Spain. This is a new edition of his brilliant study of how a barren, impoverished and isolated country became the greatest power on earth in a few decades, and of its equally sudden decline.
Since its first publication, J. H. Elliott’s work has become established as the most comprehensive, balanced and accessible account of the dramatic rise and fall of Imperial Spain. This is a new edition of his brilliant study of how a barren, impoverished and isolated country became the greatest power on earth in a few decades, and of its equally sudden decline.
Imperial Spain 1469-1716 / J. H. Elliott