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Title: World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II
Author: THOMAS HUGH
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 23/09/2015
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active
The Spanish empire was the greatest the world had seen since Rome. This final volume of Hugh Thomas’s acclaimed history describes how conquistadores, viceroys, nobles, judges, inquisitors and priests ran a vast global empire stretching from the Americas to the Philippines, in an extraordinary epic of war, riches and religion.
‘Thomas paints the protagonists of empire in the richest colours … he writes almost as if he were himself a courtier relaying the gossip, trials and genealogy of the great men carving out and running Philip’s empire.’ Ben Macintyre, The Times
‘Lively, fascinating . . . Thomas brings the era of Philip II to life with his customary clarity, fluency and attention to detail.’ David Abulafia, Prospect
‘Triumphant … Had Macaulay been the historian of Mexico or Chile, he might have written like this’. Andrew Breeze, The Tablet
‘Full of illuminating detail.’ Economist
ISBN: 9780141034478
Pages: 496