GONZALO ANES AND LIFE IN 18TH-CENTURY SPAIN | BOOK REVIEW | THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS | EPISODE #2
Channel: The Republic of Letters
Date: 2021-09-12

CONTENTS:

00:00 - WELCOME BACK
00:30 - INTRODUCING THE AUTHOR 
01:52 - WHY THIS BOOK? 'EL ANTIGUO RÉGIMEN: LOS BORBONES'
02:50 - WHY THIS COVER? 'LA ERA' BY FRANCISCO DE GOYA 
05:44 - POPULATION GROWTH AND ITS CAUSES
09:18 - THE ECONOMY: LAGGING BEHIND
10:35 - THE IDLE NOBLEMEN AND THE LABOURING POOR 
12:48 - ATTITUDES TOWARDS WORK
15:38 - EDUCATION
19:08 - THE EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS
22:08 - TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS AND WAYS OF SOLVING THEM
24:55 - COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS #1: NO ENLIGHTENED CLERICS
26:50 - COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS #2: SPAIN AND ENLIGHTENMENT 
27:35 - COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS #3: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 
28:35 - ANES MAKES A CASE FOR THE SPANISH EMPIRE
31:05 - SPAIN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
31:55 - THE BOURBONS: A SHIFT TOWARDS DOMESTIC POLICY 
33:00 - WRAPPIN' UP 

Why was it so hard for the 18th-Century Spain to catch up with rapidly industrialising nations like England and France? What obstacles stood in the path of development? What can we say about the Spanish Enlightenment? Gonzalo Anes, one of Spain's leading economic historians of all times, explores these topics in detail in his masterpiece 'El Antiguo Régimen: Los Borbones', which covers the history of Spain starting from the reign of Philip V and ending up with the outbreak of the Peninsular War in 1808. 

In this video review, I take a closer look at this work, one of the best studies of the 18th-Century Spain ever written, and also a book that, sadly, has remained largely unknown to the reading public beyond the Pyrenees.

#EconomicHistory #Spain #18thCentury 

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