La vida i els costums de la gent d'una petita parròquia catalana als segles XVI i XVII serveixen a l'autor com a punt d'arrencada per a endinsar-nos en els lents i, a la vegada, profunds canvis imposats pels efectes de la reforma del...
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 Kame...
We all carry in our heads a seductive picture of what Spain stands for: its music, painting, buildings, and history. But much of what we think of as Spanish culture is, in fact, the invention of a very specific group: the Spanish in exile.
This completely updated fourth edition of Henry Kamenâs authoritative, accessible survey of Spanish politics and civilisation in the Golden Age of its world experience substantially expands the coverage of themes and takes account of...
For nearly two centuries Spain was the worldâs most influential nation, dominant in Europe and with authority over immense territories in America and the Pacific. Because none of this was achieved by its own economic or military resource...
Spain has had a long history of exiles. Since the destruction of the last Muslim territories in Granada in 1492 wave after wave of its people have been driven from the country.
Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, the third duke of Alba, is remembered as a fanatical monster who laid waste much of the Netherlands rather than surrender it to Protestant heretics. Kamen attempts a re-evaluation of the duke, assessing this complex figure...
Between 1450 and 1750 Europe underwent tremendous political, religious and cultural change - change which laid the foundations for the Europe we know today. Henry Kamen has compiled an accessible biographical guide to Europe in this most exciting of perio...