The Age of the Reformation

Chapter 38

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THE IBERIAN PENINSULA AND THE EXPANSION OF EUROPE

SECTION 1. _Spain_

SOURCES:

_Colección de documentos ineditos para la historia de España_. 112 vols. 1842 ff.

_Nueva Colección de documentos ineditos &c_. 6 vols. 1892-6.

_Calendar of Letters, Despatches and State Papers, Spanish_, &c., 15 vols. covering 1509-1603, except 1555-8. 1862 to date.

A. Morel-Fatio: _Historiographie de Charles Quint_. 1913. (Contains a new French version of the Commentaries of Charles V).

F. L. de Gomara: _Annals of the Emperor Charles V_, ed. by R. B. Merriman. 1912.

LITERATURE.

Rafael Altamira y Crevea: _Historia de España_, Tomo III,[3] 1913. (The best general history, very largely social, written in easy, popular style).

C. E. Chapman: _The History of Spain_. 1918. (Based on Altamira).

E. B. Merriman: _The Rise of the Spanish Empire_. 2 vols., to 1516. 1918. (Doubtless the future volumes of the excellent work will be even more valuable for our present purpose).

K. Häbler: _Geschichte Spaniens unter den Habsburgern_, Band 1, 1907. (Standard work for the period of Charles V).

Martin A. S. Hume: _Spain, its Greatness and Decay 1479-1788_. 1898. (Popular).

M. A. S. Hume: _Philip II of Spain_. 1897.

E. Gossart: _Charles V et Philip II_. 1930.

E. A. Armstrong: _Charles V_. Second ed. 1910. 2 vols.

W. H. Prescott: _History of the Reign of Philip II, King of Spain_. 1855-74. (Unfinished, a classic).

H. C. Lea: _The Moriscos in Spain: their Conversion and Expulsion_. 1901.

Bratli: _Philippe II, roi d'Espagne_, 1912. (An unhappy attempt to whitewash Philip; uses some new material).

M. Philippson: _Westeuropa im Zeitalter von Philip II, Elizabeth und Heinrich IV_. 1882.

SECTION 2. _The Expansion of Europe_

W. H. Prescott: _History of the Conquest of Mexico_. 1843. (A classic).

W. H. Prescott: _History of the Conquest of Peru_. 1847.

H. Vander Linden: "Alexander VI and the Bulls of Demarcation," _American Historical Review_, xxii, 1916, pp 1 ff.

I. A. Wright: _Early History of Cuba_, 1492-1586. 1916.

C. de Lannoy et H. Van der Linden: _L'Expansion coloniale des Peuples Européens_. Vol. 1. Portugal et Espagne. 1907.

E. G. Bourne: _Spain in America_. 1904. (Excellent).

S. Ruge: _Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen_. 1881. (Oncken: Allgemeine Geschichte).

P. Leroy-Beaulieu: _De la Colonisation chez les peuples modernes_. 1st ed. 1874. 6th ed. 1908. 2 vols.

J. Winsor: _Narrative and Critical History of America_, vols. 1, 2, 1889, 1886.

H. Morse Stephens: _The Story of Portugal_. 1891.

G. Young: _Portugal Old and Young_. 1917.

_The Commentaries of the great Afonso Dalboquerque_, ed. by W. de G. Birch. 4 vols. 1875-84.

K. G. Jayne: _Vasco da Gama and his Successors_. (1910).

K. Waliszewski: _Ivan le Terrible_. 1904.

_The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation_, by R. Hakluyt. 12 vols. 1903.

_Purchas His Pilgrimes_, by S. Purchas. 20 vols. 1905.

F. G. Davenport: _European Treaties bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies_. 1917.

W. C. Abbott: _The Expansion of Europe_. 2 vols. 1918.