Author: Henry Kamen

For nearly two centuries Spain was the world’s most influential nation, dominant in Europe and with authority over immense territories in America a...

For nearly two centuries Spain was the world’s most influential nation, dominant in Europe and with authority over immense territories in America a...

Between 1450 and 1750 Europe underwent tremendous political, religious and cultural change - change which laid the foundations for the Europe we kn...

Between 1450 and 1750 Europe underwent tremendous political, religious and cultural change - change which laid the foundations for the Europe we kn...

An engrossing biography that attempts to fathom the motivations of an infamous sixteenth-century Spanish general Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, the t...

A leading historian explores the myths that define Spain’s view of its own past This book, the latest contribution by eminent historian Henry Kamen...

Philip V, who reluctantly assumed the Spanish throne in 1700, was the first of the Bourbon dynasty which continues to reign today. Philip’s forty-s...

An intimate look at a Catalan village reveals the wide-reaching effects of the Counter Reformation in Spain   It is commonly assumed that the Count...

"A historian’s biography of Philip II as Renaissance prince, refuting the Elizabethan propaganda picture of the spider of the Escorial."—New York T...

Spain has had a long history of exiles. Since the destruction of the last Muslim territories in Granada in 1492, wave after wave of its people have...

A new edition of a seminal work—one that explores crucial changes within Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century The early modern perio...

In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen’s classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multi...