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The debate on the decline of Spain
When, why and how did Spain fall from its pre-eminent position as a leading world power in the seventeenth century? These fundamental questions have exercised the minds of distinguished historians such as Prescott, Merriman, Hamilton, Braudel, Vilar, Vicens Vives, Elliott and Kamen and produced a prolific amount of writing. But while the subject of Spain’s decline has been subject to rigorous historical research, the debate between scholars underpinning it has not thus far been analyzed from a historiographical perspective. What are the methodologies and schools of inquiry that have shaped the discourse? How have historians’ perceptions been influenced by time and circumstance? Why has the ‘Two Spains’ phenomenon endured as a historical paradigm against which to measure its fortunes? These are some of the issues this book will address in its appraisal of the historians of Spain’s decline and their discourse.
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The debate on the decline of Spain
When, why and how did Spain fall from its pre-eminent position as a leading world power in the seventeenth century? These fundamental questions have exercised the minds of distinguished historians such as Prescott, Merriman, Hamilton, Braudel, Vilar, Vicens Vives, Elliott and Kamen and produced a prolific amount of writing. But while the subject of Spain’s decline has been subject to rigorous historical research, the debate between scholars underpinning it has not thus far been analyzed from a historiographical perspective. What are the methodologies and schools of inquiry that have shaped the discourse? How have historians’ perceptions been influenced by time and circumstance? Why has the ‘Two Spains’ phenomenon endured as a historical paradigm against which to measure its fortunes? These are some of the issues this book will address in its appraisal of the historians of Spain’s decline and their discourse.
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The debate on the decline of Spain

The debate on the decline of Spain

The debate on the decline of Spain

The debate on the decline of Spain

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When, why and how did Spain fall from its pre-eminent position as a leading world power in the seventeenth century? These fundamental questions have exercised the minds of distinguished historians such as Prescott, Merriman, Hamilton, Braudel, Vilar, Vicens Vives, Elliott and Kamen and produced a prolific amount of writing. But while the subject of Spain’s decline has been subject to rigorous historical research, the debate between scholars underpinning it has not thus far been analyzed from a historiographical perspective. What are the methodologies and schools of inquiry that have shaped the discourse? How have historians’ perceptions been influenced by time and circumstance? Why has the ‘Two Spains’ phenomenon endured as a historical paradigm against which to measure its fortunes? These are some of the issues this book will address in its appraisal of the historians of Spain’s decline and their discourse.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780719079641
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 09/01/2012
Series: Issues in Historiography
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Helen Rawlings is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Leicester

Table of Contents

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

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