Del 5 - History of European Political and Constitutional Thought

Diplomatic Enlightenment

Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Edward Jones Corredera, Edward Jones Corredera

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This book reconfigures the study of the origins of the Enlightenment in the Spanish Empire. Challenging dominant interpretations of the period, this book shows that early eighteenth-century Spanish authors turned to Enlightenment ideas to reinvent Spain’s role in the European balance of power. And while international law grew to provide a legal framework that could safeguard peace, Spanish officials, diplomats, and authors, hardened by the failure of Spanish diplomacy, sought instead to regulate international relations by drawing on investment, profit, and self-interest. The book shows, on the basis of new archival research, that the Diplomatic Enlightenment sought to turn the Spanish Empire into a space for closer political cooperation with other European and non-European states and empires.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-12
Mått155 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt689 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistory of European Political and Constitutional Thought
Antal sidor322
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004469068

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PrefaceAcknowledgements1 The Missing CenturyThe Enlightenment, the Nation, and Modern Spain1 Introduction2 The Nineteenth-Century Spanish Enlightenment3 The Twentieth-Century View of the Absence of the Spanish Enlightenment4 Religion and the Spanish Political Elites5 The Diplomatic Enlightenment2 Predicting War and Peace1 Introduction2 Spain, Europe, and Arbitrary Monarchy3 Crisis and Catharsis: The Dawn of the Early Spanish Enlightenment4 What News Do You Bring?5 Information Overload and Elite Political Debate3 Investing in the Luces1 Introduction2 Shorting Diplomacy3 Representations of the Spanish Empire4 The Assembly of Public Trust5 Luces in the Mines6 The Seminary of Lawsuits: Law, Trade, and Corporations7 José Carvajal y Lancaster and the Arbitration of Europe8 Private Vices, Public Virtues, and Diplomatic Cooperation9 Coins, Corporations, China, and Europe10 The Naval Officer and the Aristocrat4 Revolts and ReturnsFree Trade and the Fear of Independence1 Introduction2 Investing in a New Timepiece3 Mapping Reform in Enlightenment Europe4 Free Trade: The Farce of Independence and the Growth of Spanish Political Economic Debate5 The Perils of Emulation: Corporations and the Meaning of the Spanish Empire6 The Criticism of Carvajal’s Joint-Stock Companies5 The Lever of the Balance of Power1 Introduction2 Iberia’s Role in Europe3 Borders and Trade4 Investing in Peace5 A Monarchy without a King6 Carthage’s ContractorsThe Ends of the Spanish Empire1 Introduction2 The Grain Monopoly and the Voice of the People3 The Idea of the Nation: Outsourcing Propaganda and Colonisation4 Constitutionalism in the Spanish Empire and the International Order7 ConclusionBibliographyIndex