How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History

Bys: Fernández-Armesto, Felipe and Lucena Giraldo, Manuel

The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth.

Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fern ndez-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789148405
• ISBN13: 9781789148404
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"