Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination

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Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination is written by Anthony Pagden and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300046766 (ISBN 10) and 9780300046762 (ISBN 13).

From the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Spain was regarded as a unique social and political community -- the most exalted, the most feared, the most despised, and the most discussed since the Roman Empire. In this important book, Anthony Pagden offers an incisive analysis of the lasting influence of the Spanish Empire in the history of early modern Europe and of its place in the European and Spanish American political imagination.