Merriman Completes History

Rogers Bigelow Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, recently completed the fourth and final volume of his "Rise of the Spanish Empire", culminating twenty years of research. He is considered the most competent authority on Spain.

Published in August by Macmillan, New York, the work deals with the reign of Phillip the Prudent, under whom Spain reached its peak and began its decline, thus bringing to a close the history of the Empire at home and abroad from its beginning to its downfall under Phillip.