[PDF] Richelieu And Olivares eBook

Author : J. H. Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 1991-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521406741

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Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of the great struggle in seventeenth-century Europe between France and Spain: the triumph of France assured the fame of Richelieu, while Spain's failure condemned Olivares to historical neglect. This fascinating book by the distinguished historian J. H. Elliott argues that contemporaries, for whom Olivares was at least as important as Richelieu, shared none of posterity's certainty about the inevitability of that outcome. His absorbing comparative portrait of the two men, as personalities and as statesmen, through their policies and their mutual struggle, offers unique insights into seventeenth-century Europe and the nature of power and statesmanship.

Author : John Huxtable Elliott
Publisher : Grupo Planeta (GBS)
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788484322962

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John H. Elliott nos ofrece aquí el análisis comparado de esas dos grandes figuras de la Europa moderna que fueron Olivares y Richelieu, y nos demuestra que fueron más semejantes -y más equilibrados en méritos- de lo que acostumbramos a suponer. Su análisis, sin embargo, va más allá de los hombres, a las formas de organización política, para atacar el tópico que da por sentado que el estado centralizado francés prefiguraba la forma de organización del futuro y tenía una inmensa superioridad sobre la fragmentada monarquía de los Austrias. Elliott ilumina con ello la historia del absolutismo y nos aporta nuevas perspectivas sobre el nacimiento del estado moderno.

Author : John Huxtable Elliott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300044997

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Traces the life of King Philip IV's principal minister, describes the Count-Duke's efforts to stop Spain's decline, and looks at seventeenth century European politics

Author : R J Knecht
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1317874544

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This concise and up-to-date assessment of Richelieu's career provides an enthralling introduction to the character and exercise of his power. Richelieu governed France for 18 years until his death and until the mid-20th century was viewed by Anglo-Saxon historians as cold, clever and ruthless. Recent interpretations have been more favourable and in this incisive study R. J. Knecht uses recent research to reassess Richelieu's career and achievements.

Author : J. H. Elliott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0300187017

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From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and the writing of history, J. H. Elliott steps back from his work to consider the progress of historical scholarship. From his own experiences as a historian of Spain, Europe, and the Americas, he provides a deft and sharp analysis of the work that historians do and how the field has changed since the 1950s.The author begins by explaining the roots of his interest in Spain and its past, then analyzes the challenges of writing the history of a country other than one's own. In succeeding chapters he offers acute observations on such topics as the history of national and imperial decline, political history, biography, and art and cultural history. Elliott concludes with an assessment of changes in the approach to history over the past half-century, including the impact of digital technology, and argues that a comprehensive vision of the past remains essential. Professional historians, students of history, and those who read history for pleasure will find in Elliott's delightful book a new appreciation of what goes into the shaping of historical works and how those works in turn can shape the world of thought and action.

Author : John Clyde Loftis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691198098

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Spain alone produced a Renaissance drama comparable to that of England, yet the two nations were enemies, separated by the worldwide conflict of Catholics and Protestants. Major dramatists on both sides addressed the divisive issues: Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderon de la Barca in Spain; Shakespeare, Marlowe, Chapman, Massinger, and Middleton in England. In this comprehensive work, a distinguished authority on drama examines history plays, masques, and spectacles, with close attention to the changing development of the two national dramas, he directs us to the study of their suprrising similarities. The author's lucid exposition makes possible an assessment of the commentary on historical events provided by the dramatists. In the early years of the Thirty Years' War, he points out, dramtaists unknowingly carried on a dialogue now audible to us: Massinger and Middleton warn of Spain's intentions; Lope, Tirso, and Calderon provide assurance that their English coutnerparts were not alarmists. Goruping works chronologically by subject or thematic relevance to phases of Anglo-Spanish relations in broad European context, Professor Loftis examines Lope's plays about the campaigns fought by the Spanish Army of Flanders and Marlowe's and Chapman's plays about French history from 1572 to 1602. John Loftis is Margery Bailey Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University. He is author of numerous works, including The Spanish Plays of Neoclassical England (Yale) and Sheridan and the Drama of Georgian England (Blackwell/Harvard). Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : G. Berridge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2001-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230508308

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This book offers an introductory guide for students to four centuries of diplomatic thought. Since diplomacy as we know it was created during the Renaissance in Italy, a number of major figures have reflected on the place of diplomacy in foreign affairs and the problems associated with its pursuit. These include statesmen, international lawyers and historians, most of whom had experience as diplomats of the first or second rank. This book examines the thought of some of the most important of them, from Niccolò Machiavelli in the early sixteenth century to Henry Kissinger in the late twentieth century.

Author : Rosario Villari
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 1995-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226856377

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Originally published in Italian as L'Uomo Barocco (Editori Laterza), in 1991. Several chapters are published from the authors' original English-language versions, revised; one has been translated form the author's original French-language version, revised. Contributors develop a portrait of institutions, ideologies, intellectual themes, and social structures as they are reflected in characteristic social roles of the Baroque period, such as the statesman, the nun, the soldier, the artist, the witch, the scientist, and the bourgeois. Paper edition (85637-2), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR