Golden Age Spain

• Main Author: Kamen, Henry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Macmillan Education UK : Imprint: Palgrave, 2005.
• Edition: Second edition.
• Series: Studies in European History
• Subjects: History.; Europe > History.; European History.

For over a century Spain controlled the greatest empire the world had ever seen, and its collapse provoked, both then as it does now, a range of analyses over which there has been little agreement. In the second edition of this successful text, Henry Kamen asks: was the Golden Age of Spain in the si...

Table of Contents:

• Editor's Preface
• A Note on References
• Introduction
• Absolute Monarchy in Spain
• The Making and Unmaking of Empire
• Did Spain Decline?
• Why was there no Reformation?
• Was Spain 'different'? Society and Culture in the Golden Age
• Conclusion
• Select Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index.