“…No hallamos ante una imagen original y única de su carácter y de los avatares de su reinado. Henry Kamen nos descubre el joven, el hombre, el marido, el padre, el cristiano y el rey. …”

“…How did a barren, thinly populated country, somewhat isolated from the rest of Europe, establish itself as the world's first superpower? Henry Kamen's impressive new book offers a fresh and highly original answer.Empire is a global survey of the two and a halt centuries (from the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth) in which the Spaniards established the most extensive empire the world had ever known, ranging from Naples and the Netherlands to the Philippines. …”