Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-336) and index.
pt. I. Conquest to conversion -- 1. The Iberian exception -- 2. The victors -- 3. The vanquished -- 4. Broken promises : Granada 1492-1500 -- 5. Rebellion and conversion -- 6. Faith triumphant -- 7. The last redout : Aragon 1520-1526 -- pt. II. One flock, one shepherd -- 8. A "house full of snakes and scorpions" -- 9. Parallel lives -- 10. Dangerous times : 1556-1568 -- 11. The Granada pragmatic -- 12. "A dirty little war" -- 13. Defeat and punishment -- pt. III. Catastrophe -- 14. The great fear -- 15. "The vilest of people" -- 16. Toward expulsion -- 17. "An imminent danger" : 1598-1609 -- 18. The "agreeable holocaust" -- 19. Secrecy and deception -- 20. A perfect conclusion? 1611-1614 -- 21. The reckoning.
Tells the story of 1609 Spain when King Philip III declared the Muslim inhabitants as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year they were given 3 days to leave Spanish territory.