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Richelieu and Olivares
J. H. Elliott
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Description for Richelieu and Olivares
Paperback. A comparative portrait of Richelieu and Olivares, as personalities and as statesmen, drawn through study of their policies and their mutual struggle. This book also offers insights into 17th-century Europe and the nature of power and statesmanship. Series: Canto Original Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 6 half-tones, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of the great struggle in seventeenth-century Europe between France and Spain: the triumph of France assured the fame of Richelieu, while Spain's failure condemned Olivares to historical neglect. This fascinating book by the distinguished historian J. H. Elliott argues that contemporaries, for whom Olivares was at least as important as Richelieu, shared none of posterity's certainty about the inevitability of ... Read more
Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of the great struggle in seventeenth-century Europe between France and Spain: the triumph of France assured the fame of Richelieu, while Spain's failure condemned Olivares to historical neglect. This fascinating book by the distinguished historian J. H. Elliott argues that contemporaries, for whom Olivares was at least as important as Richelieu, shared none of posterity's certainty about the inevitability of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
Canto Original Series
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521406741
SKU
V9780521406741
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Reviews for Richelieu and Olivares
'J. H. Elliott's elegant and penetrating study … is brief, readable, yet wide-ranging … Rather than offering a new orthodoxy, this pleasingly modest book has the great merit of raising questions it often does not pretend to solve, leaving the reader with plenty to think about.' The Times Literary Supplement