This handbook offers comprehensive coverage of the history of Spain, exploring key themes and events in four broad but not necessarily rigid temporal categories: medieval, early modern, nineteenth century and twentieth century.

The volume situates Spanish history firmly within the broader patterns unfolding across the European continent, emphasizing Spain's active participation in the processes that determined the development of modern European society. With chapters from leading scholars from both Spanish and international universities, the book helps fill long-standing gaps in European history. This handbook provides original contributions on broad themes in Spanish history which are also accessible syntheses of the most recent scholarship.

Making the latest research in Spanish history more widely accessible to an international audience, The Routledge Handbook of Spanish History is an essential reference point for students and scholars of Spain, as well as those working in comparative European history.

Andrew Dowling is an Associate Professor in Spanish History at Cardiff University. Amongst his main publications are Catalonia: A New History (Routledge 2022); The Rise of Catalan Independence: Spain's Territorial Crisis (Routledge 2018) and Catalonia since the Spanish Civil War: Reconstructing the Nation (Sussex Academic Press 2012).