by John Huxtable Elliott, Antonio Feros · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788474234398
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«El conde-duque de Olivares: el político en una época de decadencia» is the historical biography by John H. Elliott and Antonio Feros, in hardback (720 pages).
Biography of Don Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (1587-1645), favourite of Philip IV. It analyses his reform programme and foreign policy to sustain Spanish hegemony during the Thirty Years' War, as well as the contest with Richelieu and the final decline of the monarchy.
The original English work was published in 1986 and won the Wolfson History Prize; this Spanish edition appeared in 1990.
Aimed at readers of early modern Spanish and European history and at those seeking a major political biography of the seventeenth century.
Sir John Huxtable Elliott was a British historian and Hispanist who was Regius Professor at the University of Oxford and honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He published under the name J. H. Elliott.
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