Allan J. Kuethe

Spanish Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century (eBook, PDF)

War and the Bourbon Reforms, 1713-1796

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume elucidates Bourbon colonial policy with emphasis on Madrid's efforts to reform and modernize its American holdings. Set in an Atlantic world context, the book highlights the interplay between Spain and America as the Spanish empire struggled for survival amid the fierce international competition that dominated the eighteenth century. The authors use extensive research in the repositories of Spain and America, as well as innovative consultation of the French Foreign Affairs archive, to bring into focus the poorly understood reformist efforts of the early Bourbons, which laid the foundation for the better-known agenda of Charles III. As the book unfolds, the narrative puts flesh on the men and women who, for better or worse, influenced colonial governance. It is the story of power, ambition and idealism at the highest levels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139899253
• Artikelnr.: 41004523

Autorenporträt

Allan J. Kuethe is an académico correspondiente of the Spanish Royal Academy of History and has published extensively on eighteenth-century Spain and America both in the United States and in Europe. His work began with monographs on military reform, then extended to commercial policy, and, as expressed in the present volume, has advanced to a comprehensive overview of Bourbon Madrid's struggle to modernize and to sustain its vast holdings in the Western hemisphere. He is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor at Texas Tech University, to which he has dedicated his entire academic career.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Alberoni, Patiño, and the Beginnings of Atlantic Reform, 1700
1736: 1. Alberoni and the first stirrings of reform, 1714
1721; 2. Alberoni and colonial reform; 3. José de Patiño and the revival of reform, 1726
1736; Part II. The Second Wave of Reform, 1736
1759: 4. War and reform, 1736
1749; 5. Clerical reform and the secularization of the Doctrinas de Indios; 6. The downfall of Ensenada and the pause in reform, 1750
1762; Part III. Pinnacle of the Bourbon Reforms, 1759
1796: 7. The first phase of reform under Charles III, 1762
1767; 8. The reorganization of Spain's Atlantic empire, 1767
1783; 9. Adjustments and refinements in the reformist agenda, 1783
1796; Conclusion: war and reform in the Spanish Atlantic world.