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 historiansâ 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