Eighteenth-century Hispanic worlds and a global Enlightenment

• Autores: Karen Stolley
• Localización: The Routledge companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment / coord. por Elizabeth M. Franklin Lewis, Mónica Bolufer Peruga, Catherine M. Jaffe, 2019, ISBN 9781138747791, págs. 17-29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The eighteenth-century Hispanic empire faced a particular set of complex realities on the ground: the governance of imperial subjects and agents who included criollos (American-born Spaniards), indigenous peoples, African-descendants, mestizos, mulatos and Spaniards; efforts to put in place enlightened reforms of the imperial political economy; scientific and philosophical debates about the nature of the New World; and the central role of religion. This essay examines how enlightened ideas about empire were applied and transformed in eighteenth-century Spanish America as a way of rethinking the global Enlightenment itself.