By Julia Ortiz-Griffin
Spain and Portugal, a brand new identify from the ecu countries sequence, is an invaluable reference advisor for any scholar attracted to the fashionable heritage of Spain and Portugal. This reservoir of data features a concise narrative heritage, a chronology, and an A-to-Z encyclopedia protecting major humans, areas, occasions, and matters in Spanish and Portuguese heritage. as well as background, Spain and Portugal turns out to be useful for college students learning Spanish and Portuguese tradition and language in addition. The author's services in tradition and literature provides an additional size to the content material of the publication through offering info that isn't available in English wherever else. Federico Garcia Lorca; Antoni Gaudi; Ignacio de Loyola; Madrid; Pablo Picasso; The Spanish Inquisition; warfare of the Spanish Succession; and Miguel de Unamuno.
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Pombal thus preceded the Spanish onslaught against the Jesuits during the next decade and was a major advocate of the order’s dissolution by the pope in 1773. Although the need to preserve good relations with Britain drew Portugal into another short-lived war with Spain during the Seven Years’ conflict, Pombal’s main concern was with strengthening his country’s economy. This policy was reflected in promotion of agriculture and industry, support for education, and development of new approaches to trade, particularly in the colonial sphere.
By early summer 1898 an American expedition had landed in Cuba and, ignoring Havana, marched across the island brushing aside halfhearted resistance. After a fierce assault on the landward defenses of Santiago, the Americans captured the city. S. expeditionary force had meanwhile sailed across the Pacific, captured the Marianas on the way, and joined forces with the American ships that had annihilated the Spanish vessels in Manila Bay. Already besieged by Filipino rebels, the defenders of Manila quickly surrendered.
This virtually forgotten Spanish monarch occupied the throne only six months before his death, by which time his father had grown weary of retirement and resumed his reign for another 22 years. Although probably not as severely unbalanced as contemporary rumor suggested, Philip V was certainly far less effective in his later years than he had been in his youth. The early impetus for reform had petered out in the distractions of foreign adventurism and the all-too-familiar reluctance of entrenched interest groups to cooperate in the reduction of their own power.
