Resumen de Eighteenth-century Hispanic worlds and a global Enlightenment
The eighteenth-century Hispanic empire faced a particular set of complex realities on the ground: the governance of imperial subjects and agents who included criollos (American-born Spaniards), indigenous peoples, African-descendants, mestizos, mulatos and Spaniards; efforts to put in place enlightened reforms of the imperial political economy; scientific and philosophical debates about the nature of the New World; and the central role of religion. This essay examines how enlightened ideas about empire were applied and transformed in eighteenth-century Spanish America as a way of rethinking the global Enlightenment itself.
