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Spain, Europe & the wider world, 1500-1800 by Elliott, John Huxtable

Table of 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.…”
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