Author: Alfred Owen AldridgePublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Ibero-American Enlightenment
Author: Alfred Owen AldridgePublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero-America
Author: Brian HamnettPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786830477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
This book discusses responses to the challenges faced by two different Iberian imperial systems in their struggle to sustain territorial integrity and economic interests in the face of international competition. During a so-called period of ‘Enlightened Despotism’, absolutist governments in Spain and Portugal sought to harness Enlightenment ideas to their policies of reform. The Iberian Enlightenment, however, did not rely exclusively on government sponsorship – it had existing foundations in sixteenth-century Spanish humanism and subsequent attempts at reform, and educated individuals in major cities frequently operated independently of government. The Enlightenment contributed greatly to the availability of potential political solutions to the urgent matter of political status, in the attempt to transform absolutist governments into constitutional systems and drawing in the process on the structures of medieval foundations, contemporary revolutions or less radical constitutional monarchies, or a combination of sources more closely aligned with Ibero-American realities.
The Ibero-American Enlightenment. Ed. by A. Owen Aldridge
Author: A. Owen AldrigeConference on the Ibero-American Enlightenment; Sponsored by the Program of Comparative Literature of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Hispanic Society of America
Author: Hispanic Society of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Latin America and the Enlightenment
Author: Arthur Preston WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Ibero-American Enlightment
Author: Francisco de Miranda
Author: John MaherPublisher: University of London Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Francisco de Miranda (1750-1816) was a monumental figure in the independence of Venezuela and Latin America. His physical and intellectual odyssey as an exile pursued by Spanish authorities made him the most significant proponent of Spanish-American independence in revolutionary America and Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century. This book considers Miranda as traveler (in the Americas and Europe), soldier (as a Spanish officer and later general in the French revolutionary army), intellectual (as connoisseur and creator of a great private library), and romantic figure (gentleman and lover). The authors reveal how these facets of Miranda's life shaped his constant struggle for Spanish-American independence. Contributors include David Bushnell (professor emeritus, University of Florida), John Lynch (professor emeritus, University of London), Edgardo Mondolfi Gudat (Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela), Malcolm Deas (St.Antony's College, Oxford University), and Karen Racine (University of Guelph, Canada).
The Ibero-American Baroque
Author: Beatriz de Alba-KochPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144264883X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The Ibero-American Baroque is an interdisciplinary, empirically-grounded contribution to the understanding of cultural exchanges in the early modern Iberian world.
The Enlightenment on Trial
Author: Bianca PremoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190638737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The principal protagonists of this history of the Enlightenment are non-literate, poor, and enslaved colonial litigants who began to sue their superiors in the royal courts of the Spanish empire. With comparative data on civil litigation and close readings of the lawsuits, The Enlightenment on Trial explores how ordinary Spanish Americans actively produced modern concepts of law.
Science in Latin America
Author: Juan José SaldañaPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292712715
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Science in Latin America has roots that reach back to the information gathering and recording practices of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. Spanish and Portuguese conquerors and colonists introduced European scientific practices to the continent, where they hybridized with local traditions to form the beginnings of a truly Latin American science. As countries achieved their independence in the nineteenth century, they turned to science as a vehicle for modernizing education and forwarding "progress." In the twentieth century, science and technology became as omnipresent in Latin America as in the United States and Europe. Yet despite a history that stretches across five centuries, science in Latin America has traditionally been viewed as derivative of and peripheral to Euro-American science. To correct that mistaken view, this book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of science in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present. Eleven leading Latin American historians assess the part that science played in Latin American society during the colonial, independence, national, and modern eras, investigating science's role in such areas as natural history, medicine and public health, the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, politics and nation-building, educational reform, and contemporary academic research. The comparative approach of the essays creates a continent-spanning picture of Latin American science that clearly establishes its autonomous history and its right to be studied within a Latin American context.