Henry Kamen: 11 books

Book cover of Spain, 1469-1714

Spain, 1469-1714

A Society of Conflict

by Henry Kamen
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014

For nearly two centuries Spain was the world’s most influential nation, dominant in Europe and with authority over immense territories in America and the Pacific. Because none of this was achieved by its own economic or military resources, Henry Kamen sets out to explain how it achieved the unexpected...
Book cover of The Spanish Inquisition

The Spanish Inquisition

A Historical Revision, Fourth Edition

by Henry Kamen
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014

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...
Book cover of Golden Age Spain
by Henry Kamen
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004

For over a century Spain controlled the greatest empire the world had ever seen, and its collapse provoked, both then as it does now, a range of analyses over which there has been little agreement. In the second edition of this successful text, Henry Kamen asks: was the Golden Age of Spain in the sixteenth...
Book cover of Who's Who in Europe 1450-1750
by Henry Kamen
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

Between 1450 and 1750 Europe underwent tremendous political, religious and cultural change - change which laid the foundations for the Europe we know today. Henry Kamen has compiled an accessible biographical guide to Europe in this most exciting of periods - the time of the Renaissance and the Reformation,...
Book cover of Golden Age Spain
by Henry Kamen
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004

For over a century Spain controlled the greatest empire the world had ever seen, and its collapse provoked, both then as it does now, a range of analyses over which there has been little agreement. In the second edition of this successful text, Henry Kamen asks: was the Golden Age of Spain in the...
Book cover of Poder y gloria. Los héroes de la España imperial

Poder y gloria. Los héroes de la España imperial

Los héroes de la España Imperial

by Henry Kamen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 21, 2011

Henry Kamen presenta un relato sobre algunos de los principales comandantes militares de la historia de España: Hernán Cortés, El Gran Capitán, Carlos V, El duque de Alba, Juan de Austria, Alejandro Farnesio, Ambrosio de Spínola o El duque de Berwick. Cada «general» se presenta a través de...
Book cover of Brevísima historia de España
by Henry Kamen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 8, 2014

Afirma Henry Kamen, uno de los más prestigiosos hispanistas  de nuestra época, que, en sus orígenes, España era una suma de  diversidades, una combinación de pueblos unidos entre sí por la geografía, el estilo de vida o la economía, pero también diferentes unos  de otros por la cultura,...
Book cover of El enigma del Escorial
by Henry Kamen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2010

Un ensayo sobre uno de los principales símbolos de la Monarquía hispánica en su etapa de máximo esplendor. El autor analiza aspectos del poder de Felipe II relacionados con el papel del edificio, así como la vinculación entre El Escorial y la identidad de España. Una aproximación subjetiva...
Book cover of Magia y enigma

Magia y enigma

Edificios legendarios de España

by Henry Kamen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2018

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...
Book cover of The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance
by Henry Kamen
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010

Book cover of Pequeña historia de la conquista de América
by Henry Kamen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 6, 2014

¿Qué hizo que los europeos se atrevieran a viajar al Nuevo Mundo que Colón descubrió? ¿Y qué pasó cuando llegaron allí? Este pequeño libro, escrito especialmente por un historiador de renombre para los jóvenes de todas las edades, sigue los pasos de los muchos españoles...
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