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Pages: 384
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Categories: History
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-18 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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The Golden Empire
Language: en
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Authors: Hugh Thomas
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From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh