Elliott, J.H. Imperial Spain 1469-1716

Penguin Books, 2002. — 290 p.The Union of the Crowns
Origins of the union
The two Crowns
The decline of the Crown of Aragon.
Unequal partners
Reconquest and Conquest
The Reconquista completed
The advance into Africa
Medieval antecedents.
Conquest
Settlement
The Ordering of Spain
The ‘new monarchy’
The assertion of royal authority in Castile
The Church and the Faith
The economic and social foundations of the New Spain. (5)
The open society.
The Imperial Destiny
The foreign policy of Ferdinand
The Habsburg succession
Nationalism and revolt
The imperial destiny.
The Government and the Economy in the Reign of Charles V
The theory and practice of empire
The organization of empire
The Castilian economy
The problems of imperial finance
The liquidation of Charles's imperialism.
Race and Religion
The advance of heresy
The imposition of orthodoxy
The Spain of the
Counter-Reformation
The crisis of the 1560s
The second rebellion of the Alpujarras (1568–70)
The Faith militant and the Faith triumphant.
‘One Monarch, One Empire, and One Sword'
King and Court
The faction struggles
The annexation of Portugal
The revolt of Aragon (1591–2)
Splendour and Misery
The crisis of the 1590s
The failure of leadership
The pattern of society.
Revival and Disaster
The reform programme
The strain of war
1640
Defeat and survival
Epitaph on an Empire
The centre and the periphery
The change of dynasty
The failure
The achievement.