The Spanish Enlightenment revisited
By: edited by Jesús Astigarraga
Series: Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment -- 2015:02
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780729411608
Subjects: Intellectual life; Enlightenment
Description: 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-300) and index.