This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-
inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than …

In the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as
looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant …

Modern Spain has remained largely absent from the debates and narratives of global
history. In sharp contrast to the early modern period, the case of Spain in the nineteenth …

Who Should Rule? traces the ambitious imperial reform that empowered new and
competing political actors in an era of intense imperial competition, war, and the breakdown …

Invenciones poscoloniales del legado colonial./La cultura impresa grancolombiana y el
olvido de la Ilustración española./Una economía política de la circulación./El cálculo de la …

This article examines developments in the field of Atlantic History within the past two
decades and through the prism of slavery studies and a number of close sub-fields. By …

The essay examines Spain's colonial legacy in the long-run development of Spanish
America. It surveys the fiscal and constitutional outcomes of independence and assesses …

En los años inmediatamente posteriores al fin del Imperio napoleónico (1814-1823), el
constitucionalismo, una de las principales herencias de la Era de la Revolución, no solo no …

Pervasive myths of European domination and indigenous submission in the Americas
receive an overdue corrective in this far-reaching revisionary work. Despite initial upheavals …

An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion A
Great Fear: Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808 …