Enlightened reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic colonies : c. 1750 - 1830 / edited by Gabriel Paquette

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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Editors' Foreword -- INTRODUCTION: Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies in the Long Eighteenth Century -- PART I: Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750-1830: An Overview -- 1 Enlightenment, Reform, and Monarchy in Italy -- 2 'Enlightened Reform' in the Spanish Empire: An Overview -- 3 Enlightenment and Reform in France and the French Atlantic -- 4 Enlightened Reform in Portugal and Brazil -- PART II: The Rise of Public Political Culture: The Efflorescence of Civil Society and its Connection to State Reform -- 5 Rethinking Enlightened Reform in a French Context -- 6 Searching for a 'Middle Class'? Francesco Mario Pagano and the Public for Reform in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples -- 7 The Spanish Monarchy and the Uses of Jesuit Historiography in the 'Dispute of the New World' -- 8 Conceiving Central America: A Bourbon Public in the Gazeta de Guatemala (1797-1807) -- 9 Montesquieu's Persian Letters and Reading Practices in the Luso-Brazilian World (1750-1802) -- PART III: The State as an Incubator of Enlightenment and an Engine of Reform -- 10 In the House of Reform: The Bourbon Court of Eighteenth-Century Spain -- 11 'Legal Despotism' and Enlightened Reform in the Îles du Vent: The Colonial Governments of Chevalier de Mirabeau and Mercier de la Rivière, 1754-1764 -- 12 The Coming of Enlightened Reform in Bourbon Peru: Secularization of the Doctrinas de indios, 1746-1773 -- 13 The Savoyard State: Another Enlightened Despotism? -- 14 Derecho Indiano vs. the Bourbon Reforms: The Legal Philosophy of Francisco Xavier de Gamboa -- PART IV: Political Economy and the Reform of Society and the State -- 15 The Sultan's Republic: Jealousy of Trade and Oriental Despotism in Paolo Mattia Doria.

16 Observing the Neighbours: Fiscal Reform and Transnational Debates in France after the Seven Years' War -- 17 'The Proud Epithet of Enlightened': Ferdinando Galiani and the Neapolitan Debate on Colonies, Commerce and Conquest -- PART V: The Limits of Enlightened Reform -- 18 The Limits of Reform in Spanish America -- 19 Pombal's Government: Between Seventeenth-Century Valido and Enlightened Models -- 20 Enlightened Reform after Independence: Simón Bolívar's Bolivian Constitution -- 21 José da Silva Lisboa and the Vicissitudes of Enlightened Reform in Brazil, 1798-1824 -- Index.