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The Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero-America

By: Brian Hamnett

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The Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero-America

By: Brian Hamnett

This book discusses responses to the challenges faced by two different Iberian imperial systems in their struggle to sustain territorial integrity and economic interests in the face of international competition. During a so-called period of ‘Enlightened Despotism’, absolutist governments in Spain and Portugal sought to harness Enlightenment ideas to their policies of reform. The Iberian Enlightenment, however, did not rely exclusively on government sponsorship – it had existing foundations in sixteenth-century Spanish humanism and subsequent attempts at reform, and educated individuals in major cities frequently operated independently of government. The Enlightenment contributed greatly to the availability of potential political solutions to the urgent matter of political status, in the attempt to transform absolutist governments into constitutional systems and drawing in the process on the structures of medieval foundations, contemporary revolutions or less radical constitutional monarchies, or a combination of sources more closely aligned with Ibero-American realities.

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University of Wales Press

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1786830477

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9781786830470

The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Representations of Reality in History and Fiction

By: Brian Hamnett

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The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Representations of Reality in History and Fiction

By: Brian Hamnett

Brian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac, Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdós, and Tolstoy, revealing the contradictions inherent in this form of fiction and exploring the challenges writers encountered in attempting to represent a reality that linked past and present.

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Oxford University Press

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0199695040

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9780199695041

The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770–1830

By: Brian R. Hamnett

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The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770–1830

By: Brian R. Hamnett

In this new work, Brian R. Hamnett offers a comprehensive assessment of the independence era in both Spanish America and Brazil by examining the interplay between events in Iberia and in the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal. Most colonists had wanted some form of unity within the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies but European intransigence continually frustrated this aim. Hamnett argues that independence finally came as a result of widespread internal conflict in the two American empires, rather than as a result of a clear separatist ideology or a growing national sentiment. With the collapse of empire, each component territory faced a struggle to survive. The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770–1830 is the first book of its kind to give equal consideration to the Spanish and Portuguese dimensions of South America, examining these territories in terms of their divergent component elements.

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Cambridge University Press

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131680285X

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9781316802854

Victory on Earth Or in Heaven

Mexico's Religionero Rebellion

By: Brian A. Stauffer

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Victory on Earth Or in Heaven

Mexico's Religionero Rebellion

By: Brian A. Stauffer

This work reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. An essentially grassroots movement--organized by indigenous, Afro-Mexican, and mestizo parishioners in Mexico's central-western Catholic heartland--the Religionero rebellion erupted in response to a series of anticlerical measures raised to constitutional status by the Lerdo government. These "Laws of Reform" decreed the full independence of Church and state, secularized marriage and burial practices, prohibited acts of public worship, and severely curtailed the Church's ability to own and administer property. A comprehensive reconstruction of the revolt and a critical reappraisal of its significance, this book places ordinary Catholics at the center of the story of Mexico's fragmented nineteenth-century secularization and Catholic revival.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826361277

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9780826361271

Realistic Socio-legal Theory

Pragmatism and a Social Theory of Law

By: Brian Z. Tamanaha

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Realistic Socio-legal Theory

Pragmatism and a Social Theory of Law

By: Brian Z. Tamanaha

Combining philosophical pargmatism with a methodological foundation, Tamanaha formulates a framework for a realistic approach to socio-legal theory. The strengths of this approach are contrasted with that of the major schools of socio-legal theory by application to core issues in this area.Thus Tamanaha explores the problematic state of socio-legal studies, the relationship between behaviour and meaning, the notion of legal ideology, the problem of indeterminacy in rule following and application, and the structure of judicial decision making. These issues are tackled in a clear andconcise fashion while articulating a social theory of law which draws equally from legal theory and socio-legal theory.

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Oxford University Press

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0198265603

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For la Patria

Politics and the Armed Forces in Latin America

By: Brian Loveman

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For la Patria

Politics and the Armed Forces in Latin America

By: Brian Loveman

A narrative history of the military's political role in Latin America in national defence and security. The author contends that the military institutions in each Latin American nation have resulted from that country's own blend of local and imported influences.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0842027734

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9780842027731

Property and Power in a City

By: David McCrone,Brian Elliott

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Property and Power in a City

By: David McCrone,Brian Elliott

A study of the way landlordism has operated in Edinburgh over the past 100 years. It examines the type of people who have profited from this type of investment and the way they have influenced the city's politics. It is argued that in the long run this is a most destructive form of capitalism.

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Springer

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1349037745

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9781349037742

Soho & Theatreland Through Time

By: Brian Girling

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Soho & Theatreland Through Time

By: Brian Girling

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Soho & Theatreland have changed and developed over the last century

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445630915

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Australian Cinema

By: Brian McFarlane

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Australian Cinema

By: Brian McFarlane

This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.

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Columbia University Press

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0231067283

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9780231067287

Kicking Down the Doors

By: briann kearney,Brian Syron

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Kicking Down the Doors

By: briann kearney,Brian Syron

A history of Indigenous filmmakers from 1968-1993 including non Indigenous films for and about Indigenous people". Annotation pending.

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Lulu.com

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1329917642

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9781329917644

The Magic of Fashion

Ritual, Commodity, Glamour

By: Brian Moeran

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The Magic of Fashion

Ritual, Commodity, Glamour

By: Brian Moeran

Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory, anthropologist Brian Moeran argues that fashion magazines are able to cast a spell over their readers by using practices and rituals found in age-old magical and religious rites.

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Routledge

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1315417952

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...In The Grass

A Sammy Knox Mystery

By: Brian McNeill

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...In The Grass

A Sammy Knox Mystery

By: Brian McNeill

When Lady Letitia Moresby, the society stripper, hires private detective Samantha Knox to fi nd Justin, her missing python, does she know exactly what she’s getting? And does Sammy know exactly what she’s chasing? Who’s going to help her most—a cast of complicated cats or a teenage girl with no idea of her own powers? The ancient Cotswolds town of Cadisham is in for a few surprises...

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Author House

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1467884596

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Finding a Role?

The United Kingdom 1970-1990

By: Brian Harrison

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Finding a Role?

The United Kingdom 1970-1990

By: Brian Harrison

In 1970 the 'cold war' was still cold, Northern Ireland's troubles were escalating, the UK's relations with the EEC were unclear, and corporatist approaches to the economy precariously persisted. By 1990 Communism was crumbling world-wide, Thatcher's economic revolution had occurred, terrorism in Northern Ireland was waning, 'multi-culturalism' was in place, family structures were changing fast, and British political institutions had become controversial. Seven analytic chapters pursue these changes and accumulate rich detail on changes in international relations, landscape and townscape, social framework, family and welfare structures, economic policies and realities, intellect and culture, politics and government. The concluding chapter ranges chronologically even more widely to bring out the interaction of past and present, then asks how far the UK had by 1990 identified its world role. Like Harrison's Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951-1970 (2009) - the immediately preceding volume in this series - Finding a Role? includes a full chronological table and an ample index of names and themes. This, the first thorough, wide-ranging, and synoptic study of the UK so far published on this period, has two overriding aims: to show how British institutions evolved, but also to illuminate changes in the British people: their hopes and fears, values and enjoyments, failures and achievements. It therefore equips its readers to understand events since 1990, and so to decide for themselves where the UK should now be going.

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Oxford University Press

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0192543997

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9780192543998

Christianity and Other Religions

Selected Readings

By: John Hick,Brian Hebblethwaite

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Christianity and Other Religions

Selected Readings

By: John Hick,Brian Hebblethwaite

Edited by two of the most prominent names in interfaith dialogue, this is an introduction to the complex relationships between Christianity and the other world faiths. Featuring essays from some of the key thinkers in the Christian faith. It covers both Catholic and Protestant approaches, and features all the rival points of view, including the uncompromising absolutism of Karl Barth and Pope John Paul II, the more ecumenical approaches of Karl Rahner and Hans Kung, and the religious pluralism of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and John Hick, among others.

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Simon and Schuster

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1780746717

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9781780746715

Understanding Housing Policy

By: Brian Lund

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Understanding Housing Policy

By: Brian Lund

What are the major housing problems in contemporary Britain, and how effective are the policies designed to tackle them? Since the second edition of Understanding Housing Policy was published in 2011, political and financial circumstances have transformed the answers to these questions. In this fully updated third edition, Brian Lund both explores how these policies developed and were implemented under the UK Coalition Government and looks ahead to the possible revisions under the new Conservative Government. Integrating the previous edition with new discussions of such subjects as the austerity agenda following the credit crunch, the impact of the Coalition Government's housing policies, and new policy ideas, Lund offers keen insight into the pervasive impact of need, demand, and supply as applied to the housing market and austerity policies.

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Policy Press

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1447330439

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9781447330431

Chemical Sensors and Biosensors

By: Brian R. Eggins

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Chemical Sensors and Biosensors

By: Brian R. Eggins

Covering the huge developments in sensor technology and electronic sensing devices that have occurred in the last 10 years, this book uses an open learning format to encourage reader understanding of the subject. An invaluable distance learning book Applications orientated providing invaluable aid for anyone wishing to use chemical and biosensors Key features and subjects covered include the following: Sensors based on both electrochemical and photometric transducers Mass-sensitive sensors Thermal-sensitive sensors Performance factors for sensors Examples of applications Detailed case studies of five selected sensors 30 discussion questions with worked examples and 80 self-assessment questions 140 explanatory diagrams An extensive bibliography

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470511311

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9780470511312

Shaping Melbourne's Future?

Town Planning, the State and Civil Society

By: J. Brian McLoughlin

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Shaping Melbourne's Future?

Town Planning, the State and Civil Society

By: J. Brian McLoughlin

This study examines the effects of town planning on the shape and structure of the Melbourne metropolitan area since 1945.

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CUP Archive

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0521439744

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9780521439749

Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope

Literature, Theology and Sociology in Conversation

By: Pink Dandelion,Douglas Gwyn,Rachel Muers,Brian Phillips

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Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope

Literature, Theology and Sociology in Conversation

By: Pink Dandelion,Douglas Gwyn,Rachel Muers,Brian Phillips

The 'death of tragedy' in the modern era has been proposed and debated in recent years, largely in terms of literature and western culture in general. Today, any catastrophe or misadventure is likely to be labeled a 'tragedy', without any inference of a larger, transcendent horizon or providential design that the word once conveyed. This book offers new perspectives on the idea of the 'death of tragedy', taking England and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in particular as a case study. Chapters focus on the origins of tragedy in ancient Greece, gospel and tragedy, the beginnings of the Quaker movement in seventeenth-century England, apocalyptic versus secularized experiences of time, Edwardian Quaker triumphalism, the search for English identity in postcolonial Britain, liberal Quakerism at the end of the twentieth century, and the promise and dilemma of postmodernity. The different disciplinary perspectives of the contributing authors bring literature, history, theology and sociology into a creative and revealing conversation. A Foreword by Richard Fenn introduces the book with an original and provocative meditation on tragedy and time.

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Routledge

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1351878417

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The Geography of Rural Change

By: Brian Ilbery

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The Geography of Rural Change

By: Brian Ilbery

The Geography of Rural Change provides a thorough examination of the processes and outcomes of rural change as a result of a period of major restructuring in developed market economies. After outlining the main dimensions of rural change, the book progresses from a discussion of theoretical insights into rural restructuring to a consideration of both the extensive use of rural land and the changing nature of rural economy and society. The text places an emphasis on relevant principles, concepts and theories of rural change, and these are supported by extensive case study evidence drawn from different parts of the developed world. The Geography of Rural Change is written for undergraduates taking courses in human geography, agricultural geography, rural geography, rural sociology, planning and agricultural economics.

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1317889371

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Energy, Simulation-training, Ocean Engineering, and Instrumentation

Research Papers of the Link Foundation Fellows

By: Brian J. Thompson

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Energy, Simulation-training, Ocean Engineering, and Instrumentation

Research Papers of the Link Foundation Fellows

By: Brian J. Thompson

This volume contains research papers reporting on the results of the Link Foundation Fellows in Energy, Simulation Training, and Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation. The work covers a wide variety of research topics carried out at leading universities and colleges. Brian J. Thompson is Provost Emeritus of the University of Rochester.

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University Rochester Press

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1580461131

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The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Representations of Reality in History and Fiction

By: Brian Hamnett

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The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Representations of Reality in History and Fiction

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Oxford University Press

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Roots of Insurgency

Mexican Regions, 1750-1824

By: Brian R. Hamnett

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Roots of Insurgency

Mexican Regions, 1750-1824

By: Brian R. Hamnett

Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacán, and Guanajuato from the middle of the eighteenth century, and to assess their relationship to the widespread insurgency of the second decade of the nineteenth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521893240

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A Concise History of Mexico

By: Brian R. Hamnett

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A Concise History of Mexico

By: Brian R. Hamnett

An illustrated introduction to Mexico's historical and contemporary issues, problems and events.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521589169

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9780521589161

Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 18361861

By: Brian Hamnett

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Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 18361861

By: Brian Hamnett

Between 1836 and 1861, Mexico’s difficulties as a sovereign state became fully exposed. Its example provides a case study for all similarly emerging independent states that have broken away from long-standing imperial systems. The leaders of the Republic in Mexico envisaged the construction of a nation, in a process that often conflicted with ethnic, religious, and local loyalties. The question of popular participation always remained outstanding, and this book examines regional and local movements as the other side of the coin to capital city issues and aspirations. Formerly an outstanding Spanish colony on the North American sub-continent, financial difficulties, economic recession, and political divisions made the new Republic vulnerable to spoliation. This began with the loss of Texas in 1836, the acquisition of the Far North by the United States in 1846–8, and the European debt-collecting Intervention in 1861. This study examines the Mexican responses to these setbacks, culminating in the Liberal Reform Movement from 1855 and the opposition to it.

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University of Wales Press

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1786838524

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The Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero-America

By: Brian Hamnett

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The Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero-America

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This book examines a neglected aspect of the Enlightenment to demonstrate how it influenced the future shape of Spain, Portugal and their American territories.

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