Empire
Subtitle: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: March 4, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780060194765
First sentence: In a small ceremony in the year 1492 at the university city of Salamanca, in north central Spain, Queen Isabella of Castile was presented with the first copy, just off the press, of the humanist Antonio de Nebrija's Grammar of the Castilian language.