Conquistati e conquistatori. L'espansione spagnola nella penisola italiana e in America centrale nella prima età moderna

This essay is focused on the relationship between managing enduring military competition and developing of self-consciousness and specific social codes in the newly formed professional combat units, such as Spanish tercios. The conquest of the New World and the settle of the Augsburg supremacy on Italy provide chronological and temporal limits to the debate, becoming an ideal laboratory to test the concept of war as promoter of linkages among social groups involved in warfare effort.