La Guerra de Sucesión

by José Calvo Poyato

Los comienzos del siglo XVIII español estuvieron marcados por un duro conflicto, la Guerra de Sucesión, cuyo desenlace significó la aparición de un nuevo estado, al hilo del carácter de guerra civil que la lucha adquirió ante la opción borbónica de Castilla y austríaca de Aragón. A la autonomía que caracterizó la monarquía de los Austrias le sucedió un estado fuertemente centralizado. Como contienda internacional supuso la liquidación del Imperio español en Europa y el asentamiento de Inglaterra como gran potencia.

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

José Calvo Poyato is a Spanish politician, historian and writer.

He is a Professor of History, a PhD from the University of Granada in Modern History and is a member of the Royal Academy of Córdoba.

Reviews

[Florence Ridley]

It's not fair for me to give this a rating since I absolutely was not using it for its intended purposes. I wanted to learn some Spanish and learn I did. Perhaps predictably, I learnt a lot of different words for soldier, siege, sea battle, land battle etc. and not much about ordering a coffee or visiting a supermarket. Google Translate was my best friend. I could not tell you what happened in this war because I really was just reading page-by-page trying to understand it on a sentence level. I had a great time though.