1. Henry Kamen

    Henry Arthur Kamen is a British historian who has published extensively on Spain and the Spanish Empire. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Henry Arthur Kamen was born in Rangoon, British Burma (now Myanmar) in 1936, [1] the son of Maurice Joseph Kamen, an Anglo-Burmese engineer working for Shell Oil, and his wife, Agnes Frizelle, by descent half Anglo-Irish and half Nepalese. [2] Kamen was educated at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School, from where he won a Major Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, earning his ...
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  4. Henry Kamen needs little introduction as one of the great scholars of Spanish history. The history of the Catholic Church in Spain is still painfully intertwined with recent history , so it is good that it is an outsider who approaches this difficult subject. This is revisionist history but is not an attempt at whitewash.
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  5. Challenging, persuasive, and unique in its thesis, Henry Kamen's Empire explores Spain's complex impact on world history with admirable clarity and intelligence. About the Author Henry Kamen is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London and an emeritus professor of the Higher Council for Scientific Research in Barcelona.
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  6. encyclopedia.com

    SIDELIGHTS: Professor Henry Kamen "has done more than any other modern historian to reverse the old Anglo-Saxon prejudice against Spain and to destroy the 'black legend' created by many eloquent but facile nineteenth-century writers," noted Maria Isabella Garcia in Contemporary Review.
  7. "Henry Kamen's The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision remains the best one-volume survey of this well-studied institution . . . lucid, engagingly written."—Gretchen Starr-Lebeau, Journal of Religion "Kamen's 1965 The Spanish Inquisition set a standard of clarity and objectivity in a traditionally contentious field. This new edition, the fruit of 50 years of scholarship and ...
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  8. Kamen, Henry. Publication date 1998 Topics Christianity - History - Catholic, Europe - Spain & Portugal, History, History / General, Western Europe - General, History - General History, History: World, Inquisition Publisher New Haven : Yale University Press Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive
  9. historycooperative.org

    This is the third edition of Henry Kamen's classic history of the Inquisition. The principal conclusion of the first edition (The Spanish Inquisition [1965]) was that the Inquisition was a weapon of social warfare used mainly to obliterate the conversos—converted Jews—as a distinct class capable of offering social and economic competition to "Old Christians."
  10. goodreads.com

    Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. tags: inquisition, spanish-inquisition. 2 likes. Like "By its vigilance and by coordinating its efforts throughout the peninsula, it may be argued that the Inquisition checked the seeds of heresy before they could be sown. This view, however, is both naïve and optimistic.

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