Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- 1 The Spanish conquest and settlement of America
- 2 Indian societies and the Spanish conquest
- 3 Spain and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 4 Spain and America: The Atlantic trade, 1492–c.1720
- 5 Spain and America in the eighteenth century
- 6 Population
- 7 Urban development
- 8 Mining
- 9 The formation and economic structure of the hacienda in New Spain
- 10 The rural economy and society of Spanish South America
- 11 Aspects of the internal economy: Labour, taxation, distribution and exchange
- 12 Social organization and social change
- 13 Indian societies under Spanish rule
- 14 Africans in Spanish American colonial society
- 15 Women in Spanish American colonial society
- 16 The Catholic church
- 17 Literature and intellectual life
- 18 Architecture and art
- 19 Music
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
5 - Spain and America in the eighteenth century
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- 1 The Spanish conquest and settlement of America
- 2 Indian societies and the Spanish conquest
- 3 Spain and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 4 Spain and America: The Atlantic trade, 1492–c.1720
- 5 Spain and America in the eighteenth century
- 6 Population
- 7 Urban development
- 8 Mining
- 9 The formation and economic structure of the hacienda in New Spain
- 10 The rural economy and society of Spanish South America
- 11 Aspects of the internal economy: Labour, taxation, distribution and exchange
- 12 Social organization and social change
- 13 Indian societies under Spanish rule
- 14 Africans in Spanish American colonial society
- 15 Women in Spanish American colonial society
- 16 The Catholic church
- 17 Literature and intellectual life
- 18 Architecture and art
- 19 Music
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
On Spain in the eighteenth century, see John Lynch, Bourbon Spain 1700– 1808 (Oxford, 1989), Gonzalo Anes, El antiguo régimen: Los Borbones (Madrid, 1975), and Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, Sociedad y estado en el siglo XVlll español (Madrid, 1976). Henry Kamen, The War of Succession in Spain 1700–15 (London, 1969) is still valuable. The impact of the Enlightenment and Enlightened Despotism is discussed in Richard Herr, The Eighteenth-Century Revolution in Spain (Princeton, N.J., 1958), Jean Sarrailh, L’Espagne eclairé de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1954) and Antonio Mestre, llustración y reforma de la iglesia: Pensamiento políticoreligioso de don Gregorio Mayáns y Siscar (1699–1781) (Valencia, 1968). On Jansenism, see Joël Saugnieux, Le Jansénisme espagnol du XVIIIe siècle: Ses composantes et ses sources (Oviedo, 1975). The classic work of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, Historia de los heterodoxos españxoles, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (Madrid, 1976) is still worth consulting. On the economy there is Jordi Nadal and Gabriel Tortella (eds.), Agricultura, comercio colonial y crecimiento econímico en la España contemporánea (Barcelona, 1974), Gonzalo Anes, Las crisis agrarias en la España moderna (Madrid, 1970), and David R. Ringrose, Transportation and Economic Stagnation in Spain 1750–1850 (Durham, N.C., 1970) and Madrid and the Spanish Economy 1560–1850 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1983).
For the revolution in government, see the first part of D. A. Brading, Miners and Merchants in Bourbon Mexico 1763–1810 (Cambridge, Eng., 1971), John Lynch, Spanish Colonial Administration 1782–1810: The Intendant System in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (London, 1958), Luis Navarro García, Intendencias de Indias (Seville, 1959), J. R. Fisher, Government and Society in Colonial Peru: The Intendant System, 1764–1814 (London, 1970) and Jacques A. Barbier, Reform and Politics in Bourbon Chile, 1755–1796 (Ottawa, 1980).
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 56 - 59Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995