Robert Goodwin

Spain

The Centre of the World 1519-1682

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Four hundred years ago, Spain was the epicenter of the largest empire in history and Spaniards laid the foundations of the modern western world.

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Produktdetails

• Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9781408862285
• ISBN-10: 140886228X
• Artikelnr.: 43923162

Autorenporträt

Dr Robert Goodwin is a research and teaching fellow at University College London. His first trade book, Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South, was published in 2008 to critical acclaim. He appears on Spanish radio and TV. He lives between London and Seville, where he regularly conducts archival research.

Rezensionen

This is history as it should be but so rarely is. Never, since Richard Cobb's great books on ancien régime France, has an English historian written on the history of a foreign country so much from the inside, with such intense love and flair and intimacy. The result is a gourmet's delight of a book: to be devoured greedily and digested at length and with pleasure