A GAME AT CHESS
THE GRAND STRATEGY OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE
The essays collected in this book have appeared in slightly modified versions in The Global Square Magazine over the last year and a half. They touch upon different dimensions of the Spanish Empire at the onset of its extraordinary extroversions: from strategy, war and diplomacy to economics, gastronomy, botany and book collecting and from its westernmost regions in the Americas to the Far East. These essays are intended as a coda to my previous incursions into the history of the Hispanic World, notably to my previous book Spain. A Global History.
A GAME AT CHESS: THE GRAND STRATEGY OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE
