Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Our Man In Spain
Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1800
By J H Elliott
Yale University Press 352pp £25 order from our bookshop
In the preface to this new volume of his collected essays and lectures, J H Elliott announces that ‘the age of the hispanista’ (the foreign expert who teaches Spaniards about their own cultures) is over. Sir John should know. The former Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford is one of a trio of English historians who dominated Spanish history in the late twentieth century: the others were Raymond Carr, who almost single-handedly revived and revolutionised the study of Spain’s nineteenth century, and Hugh Thomas, who wrote what remains incomparably the best history of the Spanish Civil War.
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