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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jaime Vicens Vives |
ISBN: | 0520014227 9780520014220 0520012992 9780520012998 |
OCLC Number: | 97377 |
Notes: | Translation of: Aproximación a la historia de España. |
Description: | xxviii, 189 pages : genealogical tables, maps ; 20 cm |
Contents: | The first settlers -- Colonizers and invaders -- Roman Hispania -- The visigothic mirage -- The triumph of Islam -- Asturian legitimacy and the Frankish intrusion -- The caliphate of Cordoba versus the kindom of Leon -- Return to Europe: Navarre and the spirit of Castile -- The invastions from North Africa and the ideal of a crusade -- Hispanic pluralism and the Pyrenean empire -- Military expansion on the peninsula and in the Mediterranean -- The Medieval apex -- Beginning of dissension in Hispania -- The crisis of the fifteenth century -- The ordering of Hispania by the Catholic monarchs -- Hispania under the Hapsburg monarchs -- The overthrow of Hispania and the bankruptcy of the Hapsburg dynasty's policy -- Bourbon reforms -- Politics and economics in nineteenth-century Spain -- The crisis of the twentieth century. |
Series Title: | Campus (Berkeley, Calif.), 22. |
Other Titles: | Aproximación a la historia de España. |
Responsibility: | by Jaime Vicens Vives ; translated and edited by Joan Connelly Ullman. |
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