Download or read book Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination written by Anthony Pagden and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Spain was regarded as a unique social and political community -- the most exalted, the most feared, the most despised, and the most discussed since the Roman Empire. In this important book, Anthony Pagden offers an incisive analysis of the lasting influence of the Spanish Empire in the history of early modern Europe and of its place in the European and Spanish American political imagination.