... Latin America and the enlightenment
By: essays by Arthur P. Whitaker [and others] ... introduction by Federico de Onís; edited by Arthur P. Whitaker.
Series: The Appleton-Century historical essays
Publisher: D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated
Published: 1942
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Enlightenment -- Latin America.; Enlightenment -- Brazil.; Latin America -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.; Brazil -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
The first four essays were presented in the discussion of "Latin American and the eighteenth-century enlightenment" in one of the sessions of the annual meeting of the American historical association at New York in December 1940.  cf. Prefatory note.
Table of contents: title: The dual rôle of Latin America in the enlightenment, by A. P. Whitaker.; title: Traces of French enlightenment in colonial Hispanic America, by R. D. Hussey.; title: Some inter-American aspects of the enlightenment, by Harry Bernstein.; title: The reception of the enlightenment in Latin America, by J. T. Lanning.; title: Aspects of the enlightenment in Brazil, by Alexander Marchant.; title: The Spanish government and the enlightenment in America, by A. S. Aiton.