Who should rule? men of arms, the republic of letters, and the fall of the Spanish Empire
When Philip V prevailed over his rival Archduke Charles of Austria in 1713, the Spanish Bourbon dynasty attempted to create a new power elite, based on a more professionalized, modern, and educated military officer corps. At the same time, the Bourbons wanted to govern by relying on 'men of let...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press
[2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Imperial reform: contentious consequences, 1760-1808
- Towards a new imperial elite
- Merit and its subversive new roles
- The king's most loyal subjects
- From men of letters to political actors
- Imperial turmoil: conflicts old and new, 1805-1830
- Liberalism and war, 1805-1814
- Abascal and the problem of letters in Peru, 1806-1816
- Pens, politics, and swords: a path to pervasive unrest, 1820-1830
