Philip II(born May 21, 1527,Valladolid, Spain—died September 13, 1598, El Escorial) was thekingof theSpaniards(1556–98) and king of thePortuguese(asPhilip I, 1580–98), champion of theRoman CatholicCounter-Reformation. During his reign the Spanish empireattainedits greatest power, extent, ...
The empire would be built upon two of the largest American Indian empires in the Americas, the Aztec and Inca. At its maximal extent the empire would stretch from the Pacific Northwest of North America, through Central America and the Caribbean, and on to southern Chile and Argentina. The ...
Developments in Spain and the Mediterranean during 1704 were also fairly encouraging for the emperor and his allies. The accession of Portugal to the side of the empire and Maritime Powers meant that it was now much easier to launch an invasion of Spain itself, and in February the archduke Ch...
Simultaneously, the two largest sugar-producing provinces in the Philippines, Pampanga and Negros Occidental, emphasise the importance of labour and land ownership in historic ecological change. Pampangan sugar growing was dominated by smallholders, but sugar in Negros Occidental was grown on large mono...
mobility. After this the traditional structure of the republican army was transformed, and while the creoles retained military and political control, the pardos (who in Venezuela were the mass of the population) had greater opportunities for advance to higher ranks and offices. To this extent ...
The largest minority languages are Russian and Polish, spoken natively by 8,2% and 5,8% of the population respectively. Russiannative speakers live primarily in cities. They include not only ethnicRussiansbut also many Belarusians, Ukrainians,Jewsand other ethnicities common in the former Soviet ...
We examined these in the period from the end of the First World War and until the passage of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922, which represented the largest even increase in US tariffs (Irwin, 2011) and gave the US one of the highest tariffs of any creditor nation in the world, ...
The woman sits on a scarlet beast, which is full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns (illustrating the close relationship between the historical city of Rome and the beast, the symbol of the Roman Empire, see Revelation 17:3). This woman (Rome) has been called Babylon...
Written at a time when France had been convincing itself that the empire was critical to hold on to, it is powerful work full of cynicism that both questions the social and political dimensions of the colonial project. Much like The Lover, the central focus of the The Sea Wall is a ...
On the Nature of Empire(check it out here). Together, it has made little time for reflection. Alas, this isthe life of a farmer. When the season to work comes over us, we work day and night, knowing a season of rest waits.