Creating Christian Granada

by David Coleman

Book Overview

Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada--Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula--surrendered to the control of Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492. Over the following century, Spanish state and Church officials, along with tens of thousands of Christian immigrant settlers, transformed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801441110
• ISBN13: 9780801441110
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"