Odious Debt

Edward Jones Corredera is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law & Assistant Lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. He received his PhD in History from the University of Cambridge in 2019. His articles have appeared in the English Historical Review, the Journal of Early Modern History, and Global Intellectual History. He has been a Fellow at the Huntington Library and the Residencia de Estudiantes, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

• Introduction1: Origins of Odious Debt2: Sancho Panza's Promised Land: Spain's Default on its American Debts3: A History of Forgiveness: Moral Bankruptcy in Mexico4: Fratricide and Redemption: Gran Colombia's Debt to Simón Bolívar5: Armed Debtor: The Utility of Bankruptcy in Argentina6: Sacred Debt and Just War: Moral Economy beyond International LawConclusion

Edward Jones Corredera, the author of this brilliant book, takes a rigorous historical look at a crucial subject, where international law intersects with politics, religion, culture, moral economy, and finance. An essential reading for anyone who wishes to know in depth not only the irruption of Spanish American countries in the world scene, but, more broadly, the intellectual assumptions on which international relations in the modern world were founded.