Yuen-Gen Liang teaches history at Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

"A powerful and complex challenge to the traditional story of how the Spanish Empire was sustained during the four centuries from the conquest of the Muslims in southern Spain to the end of the seventeenth century. This masterful and original study and its methodology will open a whole new approach to the history of empires from ancient times to the present." (Helen Nader, University of Arizona) "It is . . . refreshing to see a discussion of the Spanish empire that focuses not on Flanders, Central Europe, or the Atlantic, but on the 'forgotten frontier' of North Africa (and Navarre). . . . This book . . . demonstrates the salutary effects and innovative potential of addressing both sides of the Mediterranean as component parts of the Spanish imperial venture." (The Medieval Review)

• Note on DocumentationIntroductionChapter 1. The FernÁndez de CÓrdoba Lineage in Late Medieval CÓrdoba, 1236-1500Chapter 2. The FernÁndez de CÓrdoba Lineage and Early Spanish Expansion, 1482-1518Chapter 3. The Regeneration of Monarchy and Nobility: MartÍn de CÓrdoba in Toledo, 1520-1525Chapter 4. Navarre and the Imperialization of the House of Alcaudete, 1525-1534Chapter 5. The FernÁndez de CÓrdoba Lineage and the Transfer of Frontier Expertise to Algeria, 1512-1558Epilogue. Children of Empire: The Latter-Day Comares and AlcaudeteList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Yuen-Gen Liang teaches history at Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

"A powerful and complex challenge to the traditional story of how the Spanish Empire was sustained during the four centuries from the conquest of the Muslims in southern Spain to the end of the seventeenth century. This masterful and original study and its methodology will open a whole new approach to the history of empires from ancient times to the present." (Helen Nader, University of Arizona) "It is . . . refreshing to see a discussion of the Spanish empire that focuses not on Flanders, Central Europe, or the Atlantic, but on the 'forgotten frontier' of North Africa (and Navarre). . . . This book . . . demonstrates the salutary effects and innovative potential of addressing both sides of the Mediterranean as component parts of the Spanish imperial venture." (The Medieval Review)

• Note on DocumentationIntroductionChapter 1. The FernÁndez de CÓrdoba Lineage in Late Medieval CÓrdoba, 1236-1500Chapter 2. The FernÁndez de CÓrdoba Lineage and Early Spanish Expansion, 1482-1518Chapter 3. The Regeneration of Monarchy and Nobility: MartÍn de CÓrdoba in Toledo, 1520-1525Chapter 4. Navarre and the Imperialization of the House of Alcaudete, 1525-1534Chapter 5. The FernÁndez de CÓrdoba Lineage and the Transfer of Frontier Expertise to Algeria, 1512-1558Epilogue. Children of Empire: The Latter-Day Comares and AlcaudeteList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments