Spain, Europe & the wider world, 1500-1800 / J.H. Elliott.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Elliott, John Huxtable.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2009
• שפה: English
• תיאור פיזי: xx, 322 p. :; ill., plans.
• הערות: Includes index.

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 Velazquez.