J.H. Elliott
Born
in Reading, Berkshire, The United Kingdom
January 23, 1930
Died
March 10, 2022
Genre
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Imperial Spain, 1469 - 1716
19 editions
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1960
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Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492 - 1830
16 editions
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2006
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Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion
12 editions
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published
2018
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Richelieu and Olivares (Canto original series)
15 editions
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published
1984
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The Old World and the New: 1492 - 1650
13 editions
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published
1970
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The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline
16 editions
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published
1986
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Europe Divided, 1559 - 1598
33 editions
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published
1968
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Spain, Europe and the Wider World 1500-1800
5 editions
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published
1990
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History in the Making
10 editions
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published
2012
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Spain and Its World, 1500-1700: Selected Essays
11 editions
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1989
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“These men were dedicated fighters – tough, determined, contemptuous of danger, arrogant and touchy, extravagant and impossible; examples, perhaps a little larger than life size, of the kind of man produced by the nomadic, warrior society which inhabited the dry tableland of medieval Castile.”
― Imperial Spain 1469-1716
― Imperial Spain 1469-1716
“Había, por tanto, un fuerte núcleo de franceses en casi todas las ciudades catalanas de importancia,”
― La rebelión de los catalanes: Un estudio de la decadencia de España
― La rebelión de los catalanes: Un estudio de la decadencia de España
“While the conquistadores possessed an important advantage in the superiority of their weapons, it is in their personal characteristics that the secret of their triumph finally lies. A few small cannon and thirteen muskets can hardly have been the decisive factor in overthrowing an empire more than ten million strong. There must here have been a superiority that was more than merely technical, and perhaps it ultimately lay in the greater self-confidence of the civilization which produced the conquistadores.”
― Imperial Spain 1469-1716
― Imperial Spain 1469-1716
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