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1 online resource (320 pages) |
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Cover Page; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Graphs and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Geoffrey Parker and Early Modern History; The Limits of Empire: An Introduction; 1 â#x80;#x9C;Por Dios, Por Patria:â#x80;#x9D; The Sacral Limits of Empire as Seen in Catalan Political Sermons, 1630â#x80;#x93;1641; 2 Enlightened Absolutism and New Frontiers for Political Authority: Building Towards a State Religion in Eighteenth-Century Spain; 3 The Limits of Faith in a Maritime Empire: Mennonites, Trade and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age |
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4 Information, Gossip and Rumor: The Limits of Intelligence at the Early Modern Court, 1558â#x80;#x93;15855 Philip II, Information Overload, and the Early Modern Moment; 6 Italy and the Limits of the Spanish Empire; 7 The Limits of Dynastic Power: Poland-Lithuania, Sweden and the Problem of Composite Monarchy in the Age of the Vasas, 1562â#x80;#x93;1668; 8 The Artillery Fortress Was an Engine of European Expansion: Evidence from East Asia; 9 The Limits of Empire: The Case of Britain; 10 The FaÃade of Order: Claiming Imperial Space in Early Modern Russia |
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11 Renaissance Diplomacy and the Limits of Empire: Eustace Chapuys, Habsburg Imperialisms, and Dissimulation as Method12 Distance and Misinformation in the Conquest of America; 13 Brawling Behaviors in the Dutch Colonial Empire: Changing Norms of Fairness?; 14 Isabel Clara Eugenia: Daughter of the Spanish Empire; 15 Messianic Imperialism or Traditional Dynasticism? The Grand Strategy of Philip II and the Spanish Failure in the Wars of the 1590s; â#x80;#x9C;A manâ#x80;#x99;s gotta know his limitationsâ#x80;#x9D;: Reflections on a Misspent Past |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Europe-History-1492-
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Imperialism.
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Imperialism
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Andrade, Tonio
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| ISBN |
9781317025320 |
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1317025326 |
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