Henry Kamen
British historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Henry A. Kamen is a British historian, who has published extensively on Europe, Spain, and the Spanish Empire. Biography Henry Arthur Kamen was born in Rangoon in 1936, the son of Maurice Joseph Kamen, an Anglo-Burmese engineer working for Shell Oil, and his wife, Agnes Frizelle, by descent half Anglo-Irish and half Nepalese. Kamen was educated at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School, from where he won a Major Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, earning his doctorate at St Antony's College. During National Service he studied Russian, and his first book was a translation of the poems of Boris Pasternak .
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Published Works
- The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision (1999) (147)
- Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763 (2003) (123)
- The Spanish Inquisition (1971) (105)
- The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750. (1977) (93)
- Toleration and Dissent in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alternative Tradition (1988) (79)
- Limpieza and the ghost of Américo Castro: racism as a tool of literary analysis (1996) (60)
- THE DECLINE OF SPAIN: A HISTORICAL MYTH? (1978) (55)
- The rise of toleration (1967) (54)
- The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350-1750. (1993) (48)
- THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE EXPULSION OF SPANISH JEWS IN 1492 (1988) (46)
- Spain, 1469-1714: A Society of Conflict (1983) (46)
- Philip of Spain (1998) (44)
- Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alumbrados; The Phoenix and the Flame: Catalonia and the Counter Reformation (1995) (42)
- Spain's Road to Empire: The Making of a World Power, 1492-1763 (2009) (42)
- Inquisition and Society in Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1985) (35)
- Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century, 1665-1700. (1981) (30)
- Early Modern European Society (1984) (27)
- The War of Succession in Spain, 1700-15 (1971) (26)
- The Iron Century. Social Change in Europe, 1550-1660. (1972) (26)
- The European Crisis of the 1590s. (1986) (23)
- The Duke of Alba (2004) (20)
- Creating Christian Granada. Society and religious culture in an old-world frontier city, 1492–1600. By David Coleman. Pp. xii+252 incl. frontispiece, 4 figs, 3 maps and 4 tables. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2003. £23.95 ($39.95). 0 8014 4111 0 (2005) (19)
- Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 (review) (2010) (18)
- The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism (2008) (17)
- THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE THIRTY YEARS’WAR1 (1968) (16)
- Spanish Society, 1400–1600 (2002) (15)
- The Revolt of the Catalans. A Study in the Decline of Spain (1598-1640). (1964) (15)
- Philip V of Spain : the king who reigned twice (2001) (14)
- WITCHCRAFT IN TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND (1971) (13)
- The Disinherited: Exile and the Making of Spanish Culture, 1492-1975 (2007) (12)
- The disinherited : the exiles who created Spanish culture (2008) (12)
- The Spanish Company. (1973) (12)
- Imagining Spain : historical myth & national identity (2008) (12)
- Crisis and Change in Early Modern Spain (1993) (11)
- The Destruction of the Spanish Silver Fleet at Vigo in 1702 (1966) (11)
- Melchor de Macanaz and the foundations of Bourbon power in Spain (1965) (10)
- THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CRISIS IN NEW SPAIN: MYTH OR REALITY?: I (1982) (9)
- European Society, 1500-1700 (1984) (9)
- The Decline of Castile: the last Crisis1 (1964) (9)
- Golden Age Spain (1988) (7)
- Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 (2007) (6)
- The phoenix and the flame (1993) (6)
- Urban Society in an Age of War: Nordlingen, 1580-1720. (1981) (5)
- Apples of Gold in Filigrees of Silver: Jewish Writing in the Eye of the Spanish Inquisition (1996) (5)
- Collected Works (In Russian)@@@In the Interlude, Poems 1945-1960 (1963) (5)
- Madrid and the Spanish Economy, 1560-1850. (1985) (5)
- Confiscations in the Economy of the Spanish Inquisition (1965) (4)
- Clerical Violence in a Catholic Society: The Hispanic World 1450–1720 (1983) (3)
- A Forgotten Insurrection of the Seventeenth Century: The Catalan Peasant Rising of 1688 (1977) (3)
- Depriving the Spaniards of Their Empire (2005) (3)
- Public Authority and Popular Crime: Banditry in Valencia 1660-1714. (1974) (2)
- Philip V of Spain (2001) (2)
- The Habsburg Lands: Iberia (1994) (2)
- Galley Service and Crime in Sixteenth-Century Spain (1969) (2)
- La sociedad europea, 1500-1700 (1986) (2)
- Crypto-Judaism and the Spanish inquisition. By Michael Alpert. Pp. x+246 incl. 4 ills. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. £45. 0 333 91791 X (2003) (2)
- More Brass than Enduring (1962) (2)
- Philip II of Spain (1999) (2)
- The Spanish inquisition. By John Edwards. Pp. 160 incl. 48 ills+18 colour plates. Stroud–Charleston, SC: Tempus, 1999. £18.99 0 7524 1770 3 (2000) (1)
- Who's who in Europe, 1450-1750 (1971) (1)
- Reviews : John Lynch, Spain, 1516-1598: From Nation State to World Empire, Oxford, Basil Blackwell. 1991; x + 514 pp.; £45.00 (1993) (1)
- The Rise of the European Economy. An Economic History of Continental Europe, 1500-1750. (1977) (1)
- Toleration and the Law in the West 1500–1700 (1997) (1)
- The Escorial (2017) (1)
- Toleration in Enlightenment Europe: Inquisition, Tolerance and Liberty in Eighteenth-Century Spain (1999) (1)
- A concise history of Spain (1973) (1)
- Shorter notice. The Limits of Royal Authority. Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile. R MacKay (2000) (0)
- A Catalan merchant of the mid-seventeenth century: Narcís Feliu (?-1665) (1994) (0)
- Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II / World without End: The Global Empire of Philip II (2016) (0)
- Mad for God. Bartolomé Sánchez, the secret messiah of Cardenete . By Sara Tilghman Nalle. Pp. x+228 incl. frontispiece and 12 ills. Charlottesville–London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. $49.50 (cloth), $16.95 (paper). 0 8139 2000 0; 0 8139 2001 9 (2002) (0)
- Rural Societies in Early Modern Europe: A Review (1986) (0)
- Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder, with Donna Gabaccia, What is Migration History? Polity: Cambridge, 2009; 200 pp.; 9780745643359, £55.00 (hbk); 9780745643366, £14.99 (pbk) (2011) (0)
- G. Ungerer, "A Spaniard in Elizabethan England: the Correspondence of Antonio Pérez's Exile" (Book Review) (1977) (0)
- Reviews : Peggy K. Liss, Isabel the Queen. Life and Times, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-507356-8, 1992; x + 398 pp.; US $30.00 (1994) (0)
- Trafalgar, ¿adiós a la pérfida Albión? (2005) (0)
- The immaculate collector (2002) (0)
- Absolute Monarchy in Spain (2005) (0)
- L'any que va morir Felip II (1998) (0)
- J. H. Elliott: The Old World and the New 1492–1650 (Cambridge University Press, 1970, £0·60). Pp. x + 118. (1971) (0)
- John Tate Lanning: The Royal Protomedicato. The Regulation of the Medical Profession in the Spanish Empire , edited by John Jay TePaske (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1985, £37.50). Pp. 485. (1986) (0)
- THE MIDDLE ELITE (2005) (0)
- Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-century Spain. The alumbrados . By Alastair Hamilton. Pp. iv+ 156. Cambridge: James Clarke, 1992. £29.50. 0 227 67921 0 (1993) (0)
- Sakari Sariola: Power and Resistance. The Colonial Heritage in Latin America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972, £4.30). Pp. 316. (1975) (0)
- From Decline to Enlightenment (1997) (0)
- David Eltis and James Walvin (eds.): The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981, $22.50). Pp. 314. (1983) (0)
- Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Spain (2003) (0)
- In the interlude : poems, 1945-1960 (1963) (0)
- Was Spain ‘different’?: Society and Culture in the Golden Age (2005) (0)
- Conspiracy : a marginal disorder in the Spain of Philip II ? (1996) (0)
- Shorter notice. Conflicts of Empires. Spain, the Low Countries and the struggle for World Supremacy, 1585-1713. J Israel (1999) (0)
- Why was there no Reformation (2005) (0)
- Review: Ruth MacKay, `Lazy, Improvident People': Myth and Reality in the Writing of Spanish History, Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY, 2006; 336 pp.; 97800801473142, $24.95/£14.50 (pbk) (2008) (0)
- The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance (2010) (0)
- Early Modern European Society, Third Edition (2021) (0)
- Reviews : Josef Polisensky (ed), Der krieg und die Gesellschaft in Europa 1618-48, Documenta Bohemica Bellum Tricennale Illustrantia, Vienna, Hermann Böhlaus, 1971. 240pp. 52 DM (1975) (0)
- Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory since 1936 by Jeremy Treglown (review) (2014) (0)
- Did Spain Decline (2005) (0)
- Shorter notice. Resistance, Representation, and Community. Blickle (ed.) (1999) (0)
- D. A. Brading, "The First America. The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots and the Liberal State 1492-1867" (Book Review) (1993) (0)
- Lucrecia’s Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain (1991) (0)
- C. R. Boxer: The Church Militant and Iberian Expansion, 1440–1770 (Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978, $9.50). Pp. 148. (1980) (0)
- The Making and Unmaking of Empire (2005) (0)
- Spain’s people in an age of crisis (2014) (0)
- Society and Culture (1988) (0)
- Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (2006) (0)
- Colin A. Palmer: Human Cargoes. The British Slave Trade to Spanish America, 1700–1739 (University of Illinois Press, 1981, £11.95). Pp. xvi + 184. (1982) (0)
- The Spanish Inquisition (review) (2008) (0)
- John E. Kicza: Colonial Entrepreneurs. Families and Business in Bourbon Mexico City (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983, $24.95). Pp. xvii + 313. (1984) (0)
- Cultural Encounters: The Impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World (1993) (0)
- Luis R. Corteguera. For the Common Good: Popular Politics in Barcelona, 1580–1640. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2002. Pp. xvi, 231. $32.95 (2003) (0)
- James Lockhart and Enrique Otte: Letters and People of the Spanish Indies. The Sixteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1976, £6.90). Pp. xiii + 267. (1977) (0)
- Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Nancy E. van Deusen (review) (2016) (0)
- Review: Writing the Inquisition in Europe and America: The Correspondence between Henry Charles Lea and Paul Fredericq (1888–1908) (2005) (0)
- Mad for God (Book) (2002) (0)
- Lockhart James and Stuart B. Schwartz: Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1983, £30.00 hardback, £9.93 paper). Pp. 487. (1985) (0)
- Reviews of Books:For the Common Good: Popular Politics in Barcelona, 1580-1640 Luis R. Corteguera (2003) (0)
- Joseph Pérez.The Spanish Inquisition.. Trans. Janet Lloyd. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. viii + 248 pp. index. bibl. $26. ISBN: 0-300-10790-0. (2006) (0)
- The Other Within: The Marranos, Split Identity, and Emerging Modernity (review) (2012) (0)
- Growth and Structure of Cities 1995 Review of The Phoenix and the Flame : Catalonia and the Counter Reformation , by Henry Kamen (2015) (0)
- Erin Kathleen Rowe, Saint and Nation: Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain (2013) (0)
- The Peninsular Economy (1988) (0)
- Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II by Geoffrey Parker, and: World without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas (review) (2016) (0)
- The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism (review) (2008) (0)
- Spain as a Great Power (1988) (0)
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