Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero-America

Brian Hamnett is Research Professor at the University of Essex, and was awarded a Banco Nacional de Mexico prize for foreign scholar working on Mexican regional history in 2010.

• Series Editors' ForewordList of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: The Iberian Enlightenment: Nature and Significance Chapter 2: Regalism, Papalism and Reform of the Catholic ChurchChapter 3: State, Empire and Reform in Traditional SocietiesChapter 4: Enlightenment and Reform in Portugal and Portuguese America Chapter 5: The Spanish American Enlightenment: Reception and Practice Chapter 6: The Enlightenment in New SpainChapter 7: Issues and Personalities of the Peruvian EnlightenmentChapter 8: History, Political Institutions and the Question of Representation Chapter 9: The Counter-Enlightenment Final RemarksNotesSources and BibliographyIndex

'This book draws an intricate and detailed picture of a world that is changing and how that change became possible ... Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Wars of Independence, the creation of nations and the way in which ideas develop and interact with people.' - Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, University of Kent; 'In this lucid, thorough, and absorbing reappraisal of the Enlightenment in the Iberian monarchies and their American dominions, Brian Hamnett reveals its diverse variants, intellectual genealogies and political dimensions. An essential introduction to the many-sided Enlightenment of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds, and an important contribution to the comparative study of the Enlightenment more generally.' - Emeritus Professor Anthony McFarlane, University of Warwick; 'The author offers penetrating insights into the Enlightenment in Portugal, Spain and their Atlantic Empires, transcending the artificial Europe-America divide as well as the arbitrary separation of the Lusophone and Hispanophone intellectual worlds. The result is an original analysis of the Enlightenment and the way that enlightened political and economic ideas infused the governmental reform programs undertaken in the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the second half of the eighteenth century.' - Professor Gabriel Paquette, Johns Hopkins University