The Count-Duke of Olivares: Statesman in an Age of Decline - Hardcover

Elliott, J.H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300033907 ISBN 13: 9780300033908

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1986

Synopsis

First edition. History of Diego de Velázquez in the final years of the Spanish reign over the world. xxviii, 733 pages. cloth, dust jacket. thick 8vo..

About this title

From Library Journal:

The royal ministers Olivares and Richelieu ruled European politics in the 1620s and 1630s. Olivares failed, Richelieu succeeded; Richelieu is well known today and Olivares is not. Elliott's long-awaited biography of the Spanish favorite of Philip IV should help to remedy this injustice. This is no work of adulation; Elliott is generous in his judgement of Olivares but never indulgent. He feels that Olivares could have done little in the long run to change the course of events that overwhelmed him, but he still bears the responsibility for his own bad choices. Elliott's judgement is as always impeccable, his analysis acute. David Keymer, Dean of Students, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Utica
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About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0300033907
• ISBN 13: 9780300033908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 733