The Diplomatic Enlightenment: Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004469068)

This book reconfigures the study of the origins of the Enlightenment in the Spanish Empire. Challenging dominant interpretations of the period, this book shows that early eighteenth-century Spanish authors turned to Enlightenment ideas to reinvent Spain's role in the European balance of power. And while international law grew to provide a legal framework that could safeguard peace, Spanish officials, diplomats, and authors, hardened by the failure of Spanish diplomacy, sought instead to regulate international relations by drawing on investment, profit, and self-interest. The book shows, on the basis of new archival research, that the Diplomatic Enlightenment sought to turn the Spanish Empire into a space for closer political cooperation with other European and non-European states and empires.

Author: Edward Jones Corredera
ISBN-10: 9004469060
ISBN-13: 9789004469068
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 08/12/2021
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.81d