Format:
1 online resource (xii, 263 pages)
ISBN:
9781315556000
,
9781317025313
,
9781317025320
Content:
1. "Por Dios, Por Patria:" the sacral limits of empire as seen in Catalan political sermons, 1630-1641 / Andrew Mitchell -- 2. Enlightened absolutism and new frontiers for political authority : building towards a state religion in eighteenth-century Spain / Andrea J. Smidt -- 3. The limits of faith in a maritime empire : Mennonites, trade and politics in the Dutch Golden Age / Mary S. Sprunger -- 4. Information, gossip and rumor : the limits of intelligence at the early modern court, 1558-1585 / Denice Fett -- 5. Philip II, information overload, and the early modern moment / Paul M. Dover -- 6. Italy and the limits of the Spanish empire / Michael J. Levin -- 7. The limits of dynastic power : Poland-Lithuania, Sweden and the problem of composite monarchy in the age of the Vasas, 1562-1668 / Robert I. Frost -- 8. The artillery fortress was an engine of European expansion : evidence from East Asia / Tonio Andrade -- 9. The limits of empire : the case of Britain / Jeremy Black -- 10. The facade of order : claiming imperial space in early modern Russia / Matthew P. Romaniello -- 11. Renaissance diplomacy and the limits of empire : Eustace Chapuys, Habsburg imperialisms, and dissimulation as method / Richard Lundell -- 12. Distance and misinformation in the conquest of America / Bethany Aram -- 13. Brawling behaviors in the Dutch colonial empire : changing norms of fairness? / Pamela McVay -- 14. Isabel Clara Eugenia : daughter of the Spanish empire / Cristina Borreguero Beltran -- 15. Messianic imperialism or traditional dynasticism? The grand strategy of Philip II and the Spanish failure in the wars of the 1590s / Edward Shannon Tenace.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409440109
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138107830
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409440109
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315556000
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