Europe and the Decline of Spain by R.A. Stradling - 9781032994802

Europe and the Decline of SpainA Study of the Spanish System, 15801720\nAuthor(s): R.A. Stradling\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032994802, 978-1032994802\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1981, Europe and the Decline of Spain deals with the slow ebbing of Spanish power, its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar during the long seventeenth century of pre-industrial Europe. The author looks at the fortunes of Spanish European hegemony from its apogee late in the reign of Philip II to its ultimate failure and dissolution about a century later.\n\nThe author examines the dynamic spiritual and material resources of Spain as a politico-military system of continental dominance and control. He places the system in a context of continuous general European war, and structures and events in Spain and its provinces are set in this context.\n\nA feature of the book is the description of changing approaches to the Spanish system b.