The Rise of the European Powers, 1679-1793 by Jeremy Black

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Philip won that struggle but lost territories in Flanders and in Italy that Spain had held for two centuries and more in some cases, with major implications for Spain’s domestic history. 1 Close Thereafter a war of succession engulfed Spain in a way not seen for more than two hundred years. The last Spanish Habsburg, Charles II, died in 1700 and was succeeded by the first Spanish Bourbon, Louis XIV’s grandson Philip V. The first half of the eighteenth century was a momentous period in the history of Spain and its global empire, or Monarchy.

The Rise of the European Powers, 1679-1793 by Jeremy Black