Agents of Empire - Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Klappentext An important contribution to our understanding of the nature and limits of the Spanish imperial system, Agents of Empire more broadly highlights the centrality of diplomatic history to any consideration of the politics of empire. Zusammenfassung Historians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the outbreak in 1618 of the Thirty Years' War, Spanish domination of Italy was so complete that one can refer to the period as a "pax hispanica."...

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• Authors: Michael J. Levin, LEVIN MICHAEL J
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2005
• EAN: 9780801443527
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-4352-7
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science