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A Unifying Enlightenment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

A Unifying Enlightenment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-23
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book contains a systematic study of economic institutions during the Spanish Enlightenment in the areas of print culture (the press, merchants’ handbooks, teaching materials), education (university chairs in political economy and commerce) and the organisation of financial matters at state level (economic societies, trade consulates and the official statistics agency). A Unifying Enlightenment is a fresh interpretation of political economy’s contribution to the development of the European Enlightenment. Jesús Astigarraga shows that, far from being a straightforward intellectual phenomenon, this new science played a crucial role in both the circulating and institutionalisation of Enlightenment culture and the process of political unification and articulation undergone by the Spanish monarchy, which culminated in a constitutional culture.

Speaking of Spain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Speaking of Spain

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Spains -- 2. Spaniards -- 3. The Others Within -- 4. The Others Without -- 5. A New Spain, a New Spaniard -- 6. Race and Empire -- 7. From Empire to Nation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 611

The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-10-10
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  • Publisher: Springer

Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found that his real achievement was the creation of modern Europe as we know it.

A World Not to Come
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 574

A World Not to Come

In 1808 Napoleon invaded Spain and deposed the king. Overnight, Hispanics were forced to confront modernity and look beyond monarchy and religion for new sources of authority. Coronado focuses on how Texas Mexicans used writing to remake the social fabric in the midst of war and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World.

The Lost History of Liberalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

The Lost History of Liberalism

"The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry - and a term of derision - in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words "liberal" and "liberalism," revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning. In this timely and provocative book, Rosenblatt debunks the popular myth of liberalism as a uniquely Anglo-American tradition centered on individual rights. It was only during the Cold War and America's growing world hegemony that liberalism was refashioned into an American ideology focused so strongly on individual freedoms."--

Founders of the Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Founders of the Future

In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. Across a variety of texts, Spanish writers, scientists, educators, and politicians appropriated the new economies of industrial production—particularly its emphasis on the human capacity to transform reality through energy and work—to produce new conceptual frameworks that changed their vision of the future. These influences soon appeared in plans to enhance the nation’s productivity, justify systems of class stratification and labor exploitation, or suggest state organizational improvements. This fresh look at canonical writers such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concha Espina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and José Echegaray as well as lesser known authors offers close readings of their work as it reflected the complexity of Spain’s process of modernization.

Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 704

Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions

Acknowledgments -- Map of Southern Europe -- Introduction: Southern Europe and the making of a global revolutionary South -- Conspiracy and military careers in the Napoleonic Wars -- Pronunciamentos and the military origins of the revolutions -- Civil wars: armies, guerrilla warfare and mobilization in the rural world -- National wars of liberation and the end of the revolutionary experiences -- Crossing the Mediterranean: volunteers, mercenaries, refugees -- Re-conceiving territories: the revolutions as territorial crises -- Electing parliamentary assemblies -- Petitioning in the name of the constitution -- Shaping public opinion -- Taking control of public space -- A counterrevolutionary public sphere? The popular culture of absolutism -- Christianity against despotism -- A revolution within the Church -- Epilogue: Unfinished business. The Age of Revolutions after the 1820s -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index.

Clandestine Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 449

Clandestine Philosophy

Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment.

The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: Volume 3, The Iberian Empires
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 700

The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: Volume 3, The Iberian Empires

Volume III covers the Iberian Empires and stresses the ethnic dimension of the independent processes in Spanish America and Brazil. An important reference text for historians of the Atlantic World with a keen interest in the Iberian Empires.

Reconsidering Constitutional Formation I National Sovereignty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Reconsidering Constitutional Formation I National Sovereignty

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-08-18
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  • Publisher: Springer

This open access book can be downloaded from link.springer.com Legal studies and consequently legal history focus on constitutional documents, believing in a nominalist autonomy of constitutional semantics. Reconsidering Constitutional Formation in the late 18th and 19th century, kept historic constitutions from being simply log-books for political experts through a functional approach to the interdependencies between constitution and public discourse. Sovereignty had to be ‘believed’ by the subjects and the political élites. Such a communicative orientation of constitutional processes became palpable in the ‘religious’ affinities of the constitutional preambles. They were held as â...