Robert Goodwin

Spain

The Centre of the World 1519-1682

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Four hundred years ago, Spain was the epicenter of the largest empire in history and Spaniards laid the foundations of the modern western world.

Produktdetails

• Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9781408862285
• ISBN-10: 140886228X
• Artikelnr.: 43923162

Autorenporträt

Dr Robert T. C. Goodwin was born and educated in London and was awarded his PhD by the University of London for his thesis on Golden Age Spain. His first major book, Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South, was published in 2008. He is currently a full-time writer and historian and is a Research Associate at University College. He divides his time between London and Seville.

Rezensionen

This is history as it should be but so rarely is. Never, since Richard Cobb's great books on ancien régime France, has an English historian written on the history of a foreign country so much from the inside, with such intense love and flair and intimacy. The result is a gourmet's delight of a book: to be devoured greedily and digested at length and with pleasure