A historian?s Spanish lessons for modern America

Sir John Elliott is our greatest historian of 16th- and 17th-century Spain and the author of the magisterial biography ?The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline.? In ?History in the Making? this distinguished scholar ? now in his early 80s ? looks back on his career as a Hispanist and reflects on the developments in historiography over the past 60 years.

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