Tomás Moro y España

A popular account of the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. Ch. 13 (pp. 247-265), "Los Reyes Católicos y la Inquisición: Judíos y moriscos", deals with the establishment of the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. Asserts that the Catholic Kings' abandonment of their protective policy toward the Jews in 1487 was motivated by religious and political considerations, not by an antisemitic attitude in the modern sense of the term. The decree of expulsion was intended to provoke the conversion of the Jews, not their mass emigration.

"Important synthesis brings together Klein's archival research and his thorough reading of published monographs. He examines three administrative areas: the Viceroyalty of Peru, the Audiencia of Charcas, and the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Interpretive concluding chapter contrasts the rise of New Spain with the decline of Peru"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Estudio económico de la época de Alfonso XIII y sus consecuencias en la España de hoy. José Luis García Delgado es rector de la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo y uno de los historiadores económicos más importantes de la actualidad.

Fernando VII (1784-1833), déspota, enfermo, populista, austero, carente de firmeza, medianamente inteligente y aceptablemente culto, es sin duda uno de los mayores enigmas de la historia de España.