A History of Spain and Portugal
Author: Stanley G. Payne
Publisher: [Madison] : University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stanley G. Payne
Publisher: [Madison] : University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Christopher Atkinson
Publisher: [Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Baltimore] : Penguin Books
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Attempts to show as a whole the Peninsula made up of Spain and Portugal, with the slow unfolding of a pattern of society and an attitude to life still subtly distinct from those north of the Pyrenees. The successive occupations of Roman, Visigoth and Muslim span between them more than a thousand years. The Peninsula's great contribution to the modern age was the opening up of the New World in the west by Spain, and of new routes to the east by Portugal. Over the last century and a half the history of both peoples provides a case-study in the esential relativity of forms of government.
Author: William D. Phillips, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0521607213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Engaging history of the rich cultural, social and political life of Spain from prehistoric times to the present.
Author: Lyle N. McAlister
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 145290183X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Spanish and Portuguese expansion substantially altered the social, political, and economic contours of the modern world. In his book, Lyle McAlister provides a narrative and interpretive history of the exploration and settlement of the Americas by Spain and Portugal. McAlister divides this period (and the book) into three parts. First, he describes the formation of Old World societies with particular attention to those features that influenced the directions and forms of overseas expansion. Second, he traces the dynamic processes of conquest and colonization that between 1492 and about 1570 firmly established Spanish and Portuguese dominion in the New World. The third part deals with colonial growth and consolidation down to about 1700. McAlister's main themes are: the post-conquest territorial expansion that established the limits of what later came to be called Latin America, the emergence of distinctively Spanish and Portuguese American societies and economies, the formation of systems of imperial control and exploitation, and the ways in which conflicts between imperial and American interests were reconciled. This comprehensive history, with its extensive bibliographic essay and attention to historiographic issues, will be a standard reference for students and scholars of the period.
Author: Hugh Kennedy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1317870409
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first study in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on Arab sources. It provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492. Up till now the history of this region has been badly neglected in comparison with studies of other states in medieval Europe. When considered at all, it has been largely written from Christian sources and seen in terms of the Christian Reconquest. Hugh Kennedy raises the profile of this important area, bringing the subject alive with vivid translations from Arab sources. This will be fascinating reading for historians of medieval Europe and for historians of the middle east drawing out the similarities and contrasts with other areas of the Muslim world.
Author: Stanley G. Payne
Publisher: [Madison] : University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: H. V. Livermore
Publisher: [Edinburgh]: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniela Bleichmar
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008-12-18
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780804776332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays is the first book published in English to provide a thorough survey of the practices of science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires from 1500 to 1800. Authored by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the United States, Latin America, and Europe, the book consists of fifteen original essays, as well as an introduction and an afterword by renowned scholars in the field. The topics discussed include navigation, exploration, cartography, natural sciences, technology, and medicine. This volume is aimed at both specialists and non-specialists, and is designed to be useful for teaching. It will be a major resource for anyone interested in colonial Latin America.