Europe and the Decline of Spain
A Study of the Spanish System, 1580–1720
Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-99480-2 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-99480-2 (ISBN)
First published in 1981, Europe and the Decline of Spain deals with the slow ebbing of Spanish power, its ‘melancholy, long, withdrawing roar’ during the ‘long seventeenth century’ of pre-industrial Europe. The author looks at the fortunes of Spanish European hegemony from its apogee late in the reign of Philip II to its ultimate failure and dissolution about a century later.
The author examines the dynamic spiritual and material resources of Spain as a politico-military system of continental dominance and control. He places the system in a context of continuous general European war, and structures and events in Spain and its provinces are set in this context.
A feature of the book is the description of changing approaches to the Spanish system by its major adversaries. This, along with a fresh look at the events themselves, has conditioned a reinterpretation of Spain’s ‘political’ decline which stresses its centrality to an overview of the whole period.
The author examines the dynamic spiritual and material resources of Spain as a politico-military system of continental dominance and control. He places the system in a context of continuous general European war, and structures and events in Spain and its provinces are set in this context.
A feature of the book is the description of changing approaches to the Spanish system by its major adversaries. This, along with a fresh look at the events themselves, has conditioned a reinterpretation of Spain’s ‘political’ decline which stresses its centrality to an overview of the whole period.
R. A Stradling was Professor of History at University College, Cardiff. He has been researching and writing on various aspects of seventeenth century Spanish history since 1965.
Bibliographical Prologue: The Problems and Their Available Data General Introduction: The Philippine Empire and Europe, 1580–1610 1. From Little Wars to Total War, 1610 – 28 2. The Empire of Olivares, 1628–43 3. Years of Survival, 1643–56 4. Years of Defeat, 1656–78 5. Pathology of a Power System, 1678–1700 General Conclusion: Eighteenth-Century Horizons, 1700–20
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Revivals |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-99480-0 / 1032994800 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-99480-2 / 9781032994802 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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