British impressions of Spain and its empire in the Age of Enlightenment

• Autores: Gabriel Paquette
• Localización: The Routledge companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment / coord. por Elizabeth M. Franklin Lewis, Mónica Bolufer Peruga, Catherine M. Jaffe, 2019, ISBN 9781138747791, págs. 231-242
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter explores British attitudes toward Spain and its empire in the Age of Enlightenment. It examines how “Spain” was used as an example or counter-example in a range of British debates, from political economy to population to political thought. Far from a uniformly disparaging portrait, some eighteenth-century British observers were enamored of the Bourbon reforms while in the first decades of the nineteenth century, Spanish liberals were held up as a model to emulate.