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The book retains its previous framework and identity, and provides an account of the economy, politics and society of Spain, from the national foundations laid by Ferdinand and Isabella to the imperial policy of Charles V and the world power of Philip II. The new research of the last ten to 15 years has increased knowledge of the people, the resources and the institutions of early modern Spain. The result has been to change perceptions of Spain during this period sufficiently to make historians reflect anew on familiar subjects. The author offers here a reappraisal of many of these subjects, including the Catholic monarchs, and a number of institutions, including the Inquisition. Chapter IV, on Spain during the price revolution and Spain and its empire, has been re-written and expanded; Chapter V includes a fuller account of Spain's interaction with its American empire. The author also reinterprets the political, social and economic history of Spain, and the absolutism of Philip II. 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The troops of the extreme right fought against those of the extreme left, and the soldiers and military hardware of Germany, Italy, and Russia faced off on Spanish battlefields many years before they fought each other on the Russian steppes. For the first time, the world would see bombings of civilians to create terror. There were secret police forces on both sides and large numbers of arbitrary executions, and the use of imprisonment without trial and torture as a means of establishing state power became almost routine.But the Spanish Civil War was much more than just an overture to World War II. It was a war born out of schisms in Spanish society between rich and poor, monarchists and Republicans, the right and the left, and between those who supported the church and those who saw it as an instrument of oppression. 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