Spain's Road to Empire: The Making of a World Power, 1492-1763 - Brossura

Kamen, Henry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140285288 ISBN 13: 9780140285284

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2003

Riassunto

How did a barren, thinly populated country, somewhat isolated from the rest of Europe become the world's first superpower? Henry Kamen's tremendous new book takes full advantage of its great theme to recreate the dazzling world of militant Castile from the fall of Moorish Granada and Columbus' first voyage to the imperial collapse over three centuries later. There is no better account in English of this immense, brutal adventure - a ceaseless quest for land, gold and slaves that made Spain, both for its conquered peoples and much of the rest of Europe, into a rapacious nightmare.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

HENRY KAMEN was most recently Visiting Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of PHILIP OF SPAIN and lives in Barcelona.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0140285288
• ISBN 13: 9780140285284
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 656