Resumen de British impressions of Spain and its empire in the Age of Enlightenment
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.
