Philip III and the Pax Hispanica 1598-1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy (Yale Historical Publications , Miscellany) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Philip III and the Pax Hispanica 1598-1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy (Yale Historical Publications , Miscellany) Book

This book examines the strategies that led King Philip III to extend the laurel branch to his foes. Paul Allen argues that, contrary to widespread belief, the king's gestures of peace were in fact part of a grand strategy to enable Spain to regain...Read More

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    Impoverished after 50 years of continuous war, Spain negotiated treaties with her three most powerful enemies at the end of the 16th century. This investigation looks...

  • Product Description

    This book is more than a mere narrative of Pax Hispanica but a break with conventional wisdom that offers a new interpretation of great power (i.e., Spanish) diplomacy during the reign of Philip III, successor to the sixteenth-century King Philip II. Paul Allen claims that Philip's peace negotiations marked a break with past practice, and that they ushered in the modern age of permanent diplomacy based on long-term goals and calculations.

  • 0300076827
  • 9780300076820
  • P Allen
  • 15 March 2000
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 352
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