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Combining approaches and insights from cultural, social and military history this study traces the evolution and decline of the Spanish officer corps and genera

The period between the late 16th and the early 18th centuries was one of tremendous, and ultimately decisive, shifts in the balance of political, military and e

This volume probes the meaning and significance of military 'professionalism'; considers whether it required the waning of the chivalric ethos or merely resulte

Revised second edition of the classic study, looking at Habsburg Spain's handling of the Dutch Revolt.

Impoverished and exhausted after fifty years of incessant warfare, the great Spanish Empire at the turn of the sixteenth century negotiated treaties with its th