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Henry Arthur Francis Kamen The Disinherited: Exile and the Making of Spanish Culture, 1492-1975
Harper 2007-12 0060730862 / 9780060730864 Hardcover Near fine Fine Hardcover
New. Remainder mark, else fine in publisher's deckle-edged quarter bound boards in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.An essential purchase for all Spanish history collections." -- Library Journal "Encyclopedic...Mr. Kamen...is....one of the greatest living historians of Spain." -- New York Sun "Kamen adopts an intriguing perspective…" -- Publishers Weekly "Kamen..ably navigates Hispanic culture and uneasy relations with the United States...[THE DISINHERITED] covers enormous cultural and literary territory." -- Kirkus Reviews "This is a fascinating study from an old hand and one that looks afresh at a crucial theme in Spanish history." -- Contemporary Review Review "Kamen..ably navigates Hispanic culture and uneasy relations with the United States...[THE DISINHERITED] covers enormous cultural and literary territory." (Kirkus Reviews ) "This is a fascinating study from an old hand and one that looks afresh at a crucial theme in Spanish history." (Contemporary Review ) "An essential purchase for all Spanish history collections." (Library Journal ) "Kamen adopts an intriguing perspective." (Publishers Weekly ) "Encyclopedic...Mr. Kamen...is....one of the greatest living historians of Spain." (New York Sun ) "Henry Kamen is the finest historian of Spain presently writing in any language." (Mark Falcoff, Weekly Standard ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Kamen, Professor Henry The Duke of Alba
Yale University Press 2004 0300102836 / 9780300102833 Hardcover Fine Fine Hardcover
New. Fine in publisher's cloth in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.. . . renders a pithy, vivid portrait of the Castilian grandee as reactionary, cultivated, authoritarian, and . . . loyal to kin and king." -- Francis X. Rocca, the Wall Street Journal Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, the third duke of Alba (1507-1582), is known to history as "the butcher of Flanders." The general who carried out Philip II's repressive policies in the Netherlands, he was responsible for the massacre of thousands of men, women and children, considering it better to lay waste an entire country than leave it in the hands of heretics. Alba came to represent for contemporaries as well as for future generations the unacceptable face of Spanish imperialism. In this intriguing re-evaluation, Henry Kamen narrates the duke's personal history, looking beyond the conventional image to reveal motives and to explain rather than simply to condemn. Kamen examines the early years of Alba's life, his travels over the whole of Europe, and the complex military and political career that made him Spain's leading general of the imperial age. Drawing on the duke's rich and expressive surviving correspondence, Kamen explores Alba's beliefs and considers his infamous actions within the contexts of his time and of the monarchs-Emperor Charles V and King Philip II of Spain-whom he served.
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Kamen, Henry The Phoenix and the Flame: Catalonia and the Counter-reformation
Yale University Press 1993 0300054165 / 9780300054163 Hardcover Fine Fine Hardcover
New. Fine in publisher's cloth in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.In 16th century Europe, culture and religious belief were so enmeshed that, together, they informed and underpinned every act, however mundane, of every ordinary man or woman. The Reformation ushered in revolutionary changes in Western society, but the people of Catholic Europe have usually been regarded as little affected. Spain, in particular, is supposed to have escaped the winds of change entirely. By considering the life of one small, but lively and distinctive, rural community, and the broader Mediterranean society of which it was part, "The Phoenix and the Flame" shows, how in Catholic Europe there in fact took place powerful changes which affected the daily life, belief and culture of the common people. Drawing exclusively on unpublished documents and on the wealth of books published during the period, the author looks at the popular culture of Catalan Spain, at the changes wrought by the Counter-Reformation, administrative reforms, the place of the community in religious belief, attempts to change popular festivities and celebrations, the far-reaching innovations in marriage and sexuality, the role of the Inquisition and of the Jesuits, the problem of witchcraft, and the impact of the new ideas retailed in foreign literature on local language and the printed word. This study of Catholic society of the pre-industrial period, offers some novel perspectives on the basis of the evidence for Catalonia, Spain's most vital and individual province. Kamen's Catalonia was a traditional society in which official dogma and morality played little part in everyday life, in which church marriage and the concept of Purgatory were little known, a society where control by the Inquisition was scorned, and extensive freedom of the press survived. By contemplating popular religion and culture from the bottom rather than from the top, Henry Kamen offers insights into an epoch normally studied and assessed only in the light of political events and presents a vision of the culture and society in Golden Age Spain.
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