Helen Rawlings

The debate on the decline of Spain

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looks at when, why and how Spain declined in status from its pre-eminent position as a leading world power in the seventeenth century, examining the methodologies and schools of inquiry that have shaped the discourse and how historians' perceptions have been influenced by time and circumstance.

Produktdetails

• Issues in Historiography
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780719079641
• ISBN-10: 0719079640
• Artikelnr.: 36056154

Autorenporträt

Helen Rawlings is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Leicester

Inhaltsangabe

General editor's foreword Preface Introduction 1. The sixteenth century:
the Black Legend 2. The seventeenth century: arbitrismo and decline 3. The
eighteenth century: enlightened opinion 4. The nineteenth century:
liberalism and conservatism 5. The early twentieth century: imperialism and
decline 6. The mid-twentieth century: inter-disciplinary perspectives 7.
The later twentieth century: the general crisis of the seventeenth century
8. The current debate: decline reappraised Further reading Index