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The Spanish Enlightenment Revisited (Paperback, 1st)
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The Spanish Enlightenment Revisited (Paperback, 1st)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2015:02
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Traditional historiography has tended to disregard and even deny
Spain's role in the Enlightenment, banishing the country to a
benighted geographical periphery. In The Spanish Enlightenment
revisited a team of experts overturns the myth of the 'dark side of
Europe' and examines the authentic place of Spain in the
intellectual economy of the Enlightenment. Contributors to this
book explore how institutional and social changes in
eighteenth-century Spain sharpened the need for modernisation.
Examination of major constitutional and social initiatives, such as
the development of new scientific projects and economic societies,
the reform of criminal law, and a re-evaluation of the country's
colonial policies, reveals how ideas, principles and practices from
the wider European Enlightenment are adapted for the country's
specific context. Through detailed analysis authors investigate:
the evolution of public opinion, and the Republic of letters; the
growth of political economy as an intellectual discipline; the
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; in so doing, it
opens up new avenues of research both within the history of the
pan-European Enlightenment, and in colonial studies.
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