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The Prudent King's Advice to Trump | Time
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This is what King Philip II might have said to Donald Trump
Guardian: World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas –...
Thomas's exciting, often atrocious story shows how the Spanish conquistadors' quest for power was fuelled by fantasy, writes Anthony Pagden
World Without End: the Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas,...
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The sheer scale of imperial Spain’s ambition was matched only by its brutality
The Grand Strategy of Philip II
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The government of Philip II naturally differed greatly from that of the United States four centuries later. Most obviously, its ruler exercised absolute power by hereditary right, coming to power by genes rather than `grey cells' -- and a somewhat restricted pool of genes at that, given the remarkable propensity of many European ...
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