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 Velázquez. |
General note | Includes index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2009004214 |
ISBN | 9780300145373 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0300145373 (hbk. : alk. paper) |