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Global power - Spain’s golden age
The Economist
2017
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Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682. By Robert Goodwin. Bloomsbury; 587 pages; $40 and £30.
HABSBURG Spain in the 16th century was the world’s first global superpower, with an empire stretching east across most of Europe to the Philippines and India and west across the Atlantic to the Americas.
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