Download or read book Spain in the Seventeenth Century written by Graham Darby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the seventeenth century Spain was the foremost power in Europe. Yet during the hundred years that followed, it suffered an acute decline, economically and politically. Graham Darby traces the course of Spain's eventful history down to the inglorious end of the Habsburg monarchy and analyses the various, often conflicting, explanations and interpretations of `decline'.