In his important new study, David Ringrose reexamines the history of Spain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries He challenges the conventional ways of framing that history, questions the importance of the empire for peninsular Spain, and suggests that some of the seemingly dramatic modernization of the nineteenth century was already оделя under way in the eighteenth In addition, the emergence of a governing elite is placed in the context of family and patronage networks This challenging book will change our understanding of the history of modern Spain.  То, что вISBN 0521646308.