They rose to conquer; Spanish imperial history.('Spain's Road to Empire: The Making of a World Power 1492-1763')(Book Review)

The Economist (US) | December 7, 2002 | Copyright

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THE Spanish empire stretched from California to Patagonia and from Florida to the Philippines. One of the many virtues of Henry Kamen's book is to remind us how much, in the early centuries at least, kings of Spain thought of their empire in European terms. They were concerned to hold on to the prosperous territory that had been acquired by Ferdinand of Aragon--Naples and the Sicilies, Milan and Lombardy, Burgundy and the Netherlands. The American colonies were important only in so far as they provided thebullion, sugar and other ...

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