Henry Kamen

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Henry A. Kamen, who was born in Rangoon in 1936, is a British historian. He studied at the University of Oxford and has subsequently taught at the University of Warwick and various universities in Spain and the United States. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has been a Professor of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Barcelona since 1993.

He participated in the famous debate (with Hugh Trevor-Roper and Immanuel Wallerstein amongst others) on the consideration that the upheavals of the Seventeenth Century amounted to a period of General Crisis.

[edit] Books by Henry Kamen

• The Iron Century: Social Change in Europe, 1550-1660. New York: Praeger Publishers (1972)
• La España de Carlos II (English: The Spain of Charles II). Barcelona: Editorial Critica (1981)
• Golden Age Spain. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education (1988)
• European Society 1500-1700. New York; London: Routledge (1984)(1992)
• Philip of Spain. New Haven: Yale University Press (1997)
• The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. New Haven: Yale University Press (1998)
• Early Modern European Society. (2000)
• Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763. New York: HarperCollins (2003)
• The Duke of Alba. New Haven: Yale University Press (2004)
• Del Imperio A La Decadencia: Los Mitos Que Forjaron La España Moderna. (English: From Empire to Decay: The myths that forged modern Spain). (2006)
• The Disinherited; Exile and the Making os Spanish Culture, 1492-1975Harper Collins, 2007