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‘Since God created the world there has been no empire in it as extensive as that of Spain, for from its rising to its setting the sun never ceases to shine for one instant on its lands’, was the proud boast in 1655 of the writer Francisco Ugarte de Hermosa. Spanish power was the most obvious reality of European politics for over a century, and its decay in the subsequent century no less obvious. Inevitably, great-power status created hostile foreign attitudes, most of which have been conveniently subsumed under the title of ‘the Black Legend’[13]; and in reaction Spanish historiography also adopted attitudes rooted in patriotic sentiment rather than in reality.
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Kamen, H. (1988). Spain as a Great Power. In: Golden Age Spain. Studies in European History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08810-2_2
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