The academic defends the legacy of the Spanish empire on both sides of the Atlantic and is very critical of the false myths ...

From 1580 to 1700, low-ranking Spanish imperial officials ceaselessly moved across the Spanish empire, and in the process forged a single coherent political unit out of multiple heterogeneous ...

From the gigantic Persian empire, to the expansive British Empire, which dominated most of the world during the middle and ...

Since its discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1493, Cuba was considered the "Pearl" of the Spanish Empire--not only for its beauty, but also its sugar plantations. However, by the middle of the ...

This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core As Grand Chancellor to the Holy Roman Emperor, Mercurino di Gattinara (1465–1530) shaped the administration and aims of the Spanish ...

Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish ...

But this was not to last. The always present clash of cultures, epidemics and growing rivalries with the nearby Pueblo of San Jose were only made worse by Mexico’s secession from the Spanish Empire in ...

Senator Hoar maintained, "This Treaty will make us a vulgar, commonplace empire, controlling subject ... been growing since the beginning of the Spanish-American War. In addition to Anti ...