Search results for ""Author Henry Kamen""
La invencin de Espaa
Las naciones no nacen: evolucionan y son creadas, surgen de luchas y esperanzas y persisten gracias al coraje de sus gentes. En un sentido muy real, son fabricadas, y no porque se inspiren en la falsedad, sino porque aspiran a la verdad, ya que siempre ha habido visiones alternativas y conflictivas que han contribuido a crear un país. Este libro es un análisis de algunas de esas visiones alternativas que con el tiempo han ayudado a conformar nuestra percepción de España. Visiones a menudo inspiradas por las ideologías y por las distorsiones que puedan acompañarlas, que necesitan ser entendidas y explicadas, antes que rechazadas.
£19.54
La Esfera de los Libros, S.L. Espaa y Catalua historia de una pasin
£13.41
Yale University Press The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision
In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen’s classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new—and thought-provoking—view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences for Jewish culture, measures its impact on Spain’s intellectual life, and firmly rebuts a variety of myths and exaggerations that have distorted understandings of the Inquisition. He concludes with disturbing reflections on the impact of state security organizations in our own time.
£22.50
La Esfera de los Libros, S.L. El gran duque de Alba soldado de la Espaa imperial
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo (1507-1582), tercer duque de Alba, fue el general más famoso del imperio español, cuya potencia militar contribuyó a crear. Durante más de cuarenta años sirvió, con gran valor y fidelidad, al emperador Carlos V y a su hijo Felipe II, liderando las campañas de la Corona en la Península y en Europa. Sin embargo, su reputación histórica ha sido muy desfavorable y fuera de nuestras fronteras se le ha visto como el paradigma de la crueldad española: llegó a ser conocido como el carnicero de Flandes, un personaje ávido de sangre y responsable de la masacre de miles de personas.
£13.21
Espasa Libros, S.L. Magia y enigma edificios legendarios de España
El prestigioso hispanista Henry Kamen selecciona varios monumentos míticos en España declarados Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco y explica la historia, los detalles y las leyendas que se ocultan tras estas grandes construcciones. Estos monumentos simbolizan etapas y características fundamentales de la experiencia histórica de España, así como de su idiosincrasia y particularidad.
£8.47
Yale University Press Early Modern European Society, Third Edition
A new edition of a seminal work—one that explores crucial changes within Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century The early modern period was one of profound change in Europe. It was witness to the development of science, religious reformation, and the birth of the nation state. As Europeans explored the world—looking to Asia and the Americas for new peoples and lands—their societies grew and adapted. Eminent historian Henry Kamen explores in depth the issues that most affected those living in early modern Europe—from leisure, work, and migration to religion, gender, and discipline—and the way in which population change impacted the aristocracy, the bourgeoisie, and the poor. The third edition of this pioneering study includes new and updated material on gender, religion, and population movement. Richly illustrated, this is essential reading for all those interested in early modern European society.
£15.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763
A history of the Spanish Empire traces the period between the capture of Moorish Granada and Columbus's 1492 voyage and Spain's expansion into multiple continents through the eighteenth century, noting the empire's reliance on the cooperation of non-Castilians and its vast diversity of resources and
£17.82
Yale University Press Philip of Spain
"A historian’s biography of Philip II as Renaissance prince, refuting the Elizabethan propaganda picture of the spider of the Escorial."—New York Times Book Review (And Bear in Mind)"In humanizing a man too often viewed as a cardboard tyrant, Kamen has made a valuable contribution to European historiography."—Booklist Philip II of Spain—ruler of the most extensive empire the world had ever known—has been viewed in a harsh and negative light since his death in 1598. Identified with repression, bigotry, and fanaticism by his enemies, he has been judged more by the political events of his reign than by his person. This book, published four hundred years after Philip's death, is the first full-scale biography of the king. Placing him within the social, cultural, religious, and regional context of his times, it presents a startling new picture of his character and reign. Drawing on Philip's unpublished correspondence and on many other archival sources, Henry Kamen reveals much about Philip the youth, the man, the husband, the father, the frequently troubled Christian, and the king. Kamen finds that Philip was a cosmopolitan prince whose extensive experience of northern Europe broadened his cultural imagination and tastes, whose staunchly conservative ideas were far from being illiberal and fanatical, whose religious attitudes led him to accept a practical coexistence with Protestants and Jews, and whose support for Las Casas and other defenders of the Indians in America helped determine government policy. Shedding completely new light on most aspects of Philip's private life and, in consequence, on his public actions, the book is the definitive portrayal of Philip II.
£16.99
