John Huxtable Elliott

Imperi dell'Atlantico. America britannica e America spagnola, 1492-1830

"Excellent...a virtuoso performance...a scholarly work of astounding solidity."- American Historical Review . Includes the original 1963 text, plus Elliott's amendments and additions from the first paperback edition of 1970. "All other books can be abandoned."- The Economist .

Imperial Spain, 1469-1716

Magnificently illustrated with hundreds of carefully selected paintings, sculptures, works of architecture, and photographs, this authoritative survey combines politics and society, culture and geography, to provide a total picture of Spanish and Spanish-influenced civilization. 320 illustrations, 100 in full color. 2 maps.

Civilization and Empire, Europe and the Americas, Past and Present

The Spanish World

Jonathan Brown

The Buen Retiro, a royal retreat and pleasure palace, was built for Philip IV on the outskirts of Madrid in the 1630s. With its superb display of paintings by Vel zquez and other contemporary artists, the palace became a showcase for the art and culture of Spain's Golden Age. A Palace for a King, first published in 1980, provides a pioneering total history of the construction, decoration, and uses of a major royal palace, emphasising the relationship of art and politics at a critical moment in European history. produced on different aspects of the history of the palace and its decoration since the 1970s. A number of new, unpublished illustrations have been added, and many of the plates are now reproduced in colour. The publication of this edition gains added importance from the fact that plans for the expansion of the Prado Museum include the restoration of the Hall of Realms to approximate its original appearance, as reconstructed in this volume.

The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV

A Palace for a King

Recounts how King Philip IV of Spain, at the prompting of his prime minister, built a new palace and commissioned hundreds of paintings by the greatest artists of the time

Traces the life of King Philip IV's principal minister, describes the Count-Duke's efforts to stop Spain's decline, and looks at seventeenth century European politics

The Statesman in an Age of Decline

The Count-Duke of Olivares

Geoffrey Parker

Richard L. Kagan

The idea of a dialogue - sometimes harmonious, sometimes divisive - between the centre and periphery of the early modern European state stands at the heart of much of John Elliott's historical writing. It is the fulcrum around which his Imperial Spain revolves, and it lies at the heart of his analysis of the causes of the revolt of the Catalans against the centralising policies of the Madrid government. His writings on the Americas, such as The Old World and the New, likewise stressed the relationship between centre and periphery. This collection of essays by a group of Elliott's former students examines different aspects of this important theme and develops them. Taken together with the 'personal appreciation' of Elliott (Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford), it forms an important examination of the work of the greatest living historian of Spain as well as a major contribution to early modern European history.

John Huxtable Elliott

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