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Book Synopsisthe transmission and reception of an Enlightenment discourse in the Spanish Empire;Spain’s role in shaping a modern conception of the natural sciences.The portrait of a demarginalised, modernising and enlightened Spain emerges clearly from this book;
Trade ReviewReviews ‘This book and the windows it opens into recent and stimulating research […] are an example of the critical engagement of some of the best Spanish scholarship and international historiographical debate on the Enlightenment’.
CROMOHS‘Un recueil riche en informations et suggestions, et dont il est malaisé de rendre compte avec justesse en quelques lignes’.
Dix-huitième siècle‘Esta reseña no consigue revelar con justicia el valor de esta obra colectiva en cada uno de los campos abordados por diversos expertos de la Ilustración española […] y su importancia a la hora de reivindicar un merecido lugar para España tanto en la historia intelectual del siglo de las luces’.
Cuadernos de Ilustración y RomanticismoTable of ContentsJesús Astigarraga, Introduction: admirer, rougir, imiter – Spain and the European Enlightenment
María Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo, The merits of good gobierno: culture and politics in the Bourbon court
Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos, The Spanish Republic of Letters in its European context: images, economics, and the representation of the man of letters
Jesús Astigarraga, Economic societies and the politicisation of the Spanish Enlightenment
Juan Pimentel, The Indians of Europe: the role of Spain’s Enlightenment in the making of a global science
Javier Usoz, Political economy and the creation of the public sphere during the Spanish Enlightenment
Ignacio Fernández Sarasola, Constitution projects during the Spanish Enlightenment
Gabriel Paquette, The reform of the Spanish empire in the age of Enlightenment
Jesús Astigarraga, Niccolò Guasti and Juan Zabalza, The Spanish debate on public finance: a privileged laboratory for enlightened reforms
Joaquín Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, The image of the British system of government in Spain (1759-1814)
Javier Fernández Sebastián, From the ‘voice of the people’ to the freedom of the press: the birth of public opinion
Alejandro Agüero and Marta Lorente, Penal Enlightenment in Spain: from Beccaria’s reception to the first criminal code
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