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Title: Richelieu and Olivares by J. H. Elliott, Olwen Hufton, H. G. Koenigsberger, H. M. Scott ISBN: 0-521-27857-0 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 22 March, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Hmmmmmm...............
Comment: This book is very interesting, contrasting 2 execptional men. It's a very easy book to read, although at times, it's slow.
Rating: 5
Summary: Readable and interesting.
Comment: This book is a very interesting comparative study of two relevant statesmen of the XVII century, Richelieu and Olivares, the former very [bad-]known through the eyes of The Three Musketeers by Hollywood with the cooperation of Alexandre Dumas, the latter ignored by most of the people, as it usually happens with those that lose a war. Apart from being very readable (I bought it on Sun-day and I have finished by Tuesday) and not very long, the contrast between Richelieu and Oli-vares is useful to avoid topics and myths based on the supposedly a-religious and modern per-formance of the French Cardinal versus the obsolete behaviour and ideas of the Count-Duke, or on the national character of France and/or Spain. In the case of Olivares, I have found that this book dedicates more pages to deal with the psychological and/or personal aspects than Elliot's "The Count-Duke of Olivares. The Statesman in an age of decline", who focuses more on poli-tics.
(Other books I would recommend to read on Spain: As a general overview, "A History of Spain" by Joseph Perez; and more focused on the XVI and/or XVII centuries: "The Spain of Philip II" by Joseph Perez; "Imperial Spain 1469-1716" and "The Count-Duke of Olivares. The Statesman in an age of decline" both of them also written by John Elliot; "Spain 1469-1714, A Society of Conflict", by Henry Kamen; and " Spain 1516-1598 : From Nation State to World Empire" and "The His-panic World in Crisis and Change, 1598-1700" both of them written by John Lynch).
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Title: The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin ISBN: 0226750213 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen by Richard M. Wunderli ISBN: 0253207517 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Grand Strategy of Phillip II by Geoffrey Parker ISBN: 0300082738 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Philosophy of the Enlightenment by Ernst Cassirer, James P. Pettegrove, Fritz C.A. Koelin ISBN: 0691019630 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 1968 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: When the King Took Flight : by Timothy Tackett ISBN: 067401054X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 14 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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