By Henry Kamen
For over a century Spain managed the best empire the area had ever noticeable, and its cave in provoked, either then because it does now, a number analyses over which there was little contract. within the moment variation of this profitable textual content, Henry Kamen asks: used to be the Golden Age of Spain within the 16th century really an phantasm? through interpreting the various key matters concerned, Kamen bargains a balanced dialogue of this basic question.
Golden Age Spain
- bargains a concise creation to the most important subject matters and debates
- is now completely revised and up to date within the mild of the newest research
- comprises new chapters which hide such subject matters as tradition and religion
- highlights key matters and questions first and foremost of every chapter
- features a necessary word list and an improved bibliography to assist extra study
Approachable and easy-to-follow, this article is vital analyzing for somebody with an curiosity in a single of the main attention-grabbing classes of Spanish historical past.
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Certain social characteristics - extreme religious zeal, exaggerated concepts of honour, a perverse pride in poverty - were and are viewed as being peculiarly Spanish and rooted in the history of Spaniards. Both socially and culturally the nation has been thought of as a world apart. This isolationist view can be found among scholars of all persuasions: it has appealed to traditionalists because it emphasises 'Spanish' values; it has appealed to non-Spaniards, because it confirms the romantic image of a nation living in the past; and it has been 51 sustained by 'liberal' Spaniards, who have used it to condemn the backwardness of their country.
Participation of Spanish nobles in industry and trade was logical, commonplace and did not detract from their status. Survival of the documentation of noble houses has demonstrated the fairly efficient functioning of the great aristocratic estates and their struggle for solvency during the crisis years of the early modern period[l48].
Some historians have attributed Spain's economic problems to the absence of a capitalistic ethic and the consequent lack of an effective bourgeoisie; this is arguably to put the cart before the horse, and it appears more justifiable to maintain that Spain, like other western nations, had both a bourgeoisie and an ethic, but that the negative economic situation prejudiced both. Even when further work is done on the problem, the debate will go on. The negative vision ofSpain's bourgeoisie has been exceeded only by the negative vision of its aristocracy, commonly presented as backward and anti-capitalist.