How the Spanish Empire Was Built Spring26 in conversation with works by

in conversation with works by contemporary artists

tragic and jarring

combines the charm and information of Culpeper’s original seventeenth-century text with up-to-date

Arabella Smith-James (Ruth / Janet / Mavis)

dissatisfied housewives and lonely ambassadors

How the Spanish Empire Was Built Spring26 in conversation with works bySixteenth century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernndez Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spains engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade and