by Geoffrey Parker · Alianza Editorial Sa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420635880
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«Felipe II» is the biography of King Philip II written by Geoffrey Parker, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (312 pages, in Spanish).
Geoffrey Parker traces the life of Philip II, who for forty years ruled an empire from Europe and America to the Philippines. Based on the king's personal documents, he analyzes the Spanish Armada, the Hispanicization of America and the monarch's religious obsessions, as well as his relationship with the arts and with figures such as Titian or El Greco.
This edition is part of the El Libro de Bolsillo collection from Alianza Editorial.
For readers of history and biography, especially those who want to approach the Spain of the Habsburgs and the government of a global empire.
Noel Geoffrey Parker is an English historian specialising in the history of Western Europe, Spain, and warfare during the early modern era. His best-known book is The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988.
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