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Wyngaerde was the leading topographical artist of his day and in 1561 Philip II of Spain commissioned him to execute a series of views of the cities and towns of Spain, completing 62 of them over a ten-year period.Illustrated with color and monochrome plates. A rare and valuable aid to scholars and students of early Spanish history. This is a new copy still in original shrink wrap in a pictorial slipcase. Berkeley, CA, 1989 University of California Press, 1st Ed. 415 Pgs. 12 x 12. HB.

Author: Richard L. Kagan

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This book examines the particular importance of cities in Spanish and Hispanic-American culture. Focusing on the cities and towns in South America including Mexico City, Lima, and Potosí, the author investigates the different ways in which artists, map-makers, surveyors, and military engineers represented a city in all its complexity and the different meanings that were invested in their depiction of New and Old World cities and towns. Lavishly illustrated with a variety of maps, paintings, and plans many reproduced here for the first time.New Haven, CT, 2000 Yale University Press 1st ED., 235 Pgs., 8&3/4 x 11&1/2, HB. Published at $ 60.00.

Author: Henry Kamen

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Philip V, who reluctantly assumed the Spanish thorne in 1700, was the first of the Bourbon dynasty which continues to rule Spain today. His 46-year reign, briefly curtailed in 1724 when he abdicated in favour of his short-lived son, Louis I, was one of the most important in the country's history. This is the first biogarphy of Philip V in English. Illustrated. New Haven, 2001 Yale University Press 1st Ed., 277 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/2, HB.

Author: Henry Kamen

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Philip II of Spain traditionally has been viewed in a harsh and negative light since his death in 1598, identified with repression, bigotry and fanaticism by his enemies. Kamen, a noted scholar of Spanish history, presents a startling new picture of Philip's character and reign, finding him to have been a cosmopolitan prince who broadened his cultural imagination and taste, a staunch conservative with tolerant religious attitudes and a supporter of Las Casas and the Indians of America. First full scale biography shedding new light on private/public life. New Haven, CT, 1997, 1st Ed., HB 448 Pgs.

Author: Jonathan Kirsch

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An interesting review of the inquisitorial apparatus, first invented in the Middle Ages which remained in operation for over 600 years and yet has never been fully dismantled. An unbroken thread links the friar-inquisitors to The Salem witch trials,Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, the Internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the Hollywood blacklists of the McCarthy Era, and even Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Kirsch shows how the Inquisition stands as a universal and ineradicable symbol of the terror that results when absolute power works its corruption. Illustrated. New but has remainder mark on page bottoms. Published at $ 26.95. New York, N.Y. Harper Collins 2008 1st Ed., 296 Pgs., 6 x9, HB.

Author: Harald Kleinschmidt

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Charles V (1500-1558) was the son of Philip the Handsome and Juana, Queen of Castile, grandson to the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabel. By the age of nineteen he was the most powerful monarch in Europe as King of Aragon, ruler off Castile, and Roman Emperor. The demands of ruling his vast European empire and the newly conquered lands in America ultimately overwhelmed him. In this, the first biography of Charles for many years, the author narrates an important study in ideas of kingship and dynasty. Gloustershire, UK, 2004 Sutton Publishing Limited. 1st Ed., 296 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&11/2, HB.