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This book contains a systematic study of economic institutions during the Spanish Enlightenment in the areas of print culture (the press, merchants’ handbooks, teaching materials), education (university chairs in political economy and commerce) and the organisation of financial matters at state level (economic societies, trade consulates and the official statistics agency).
A Unifying Enlightenment is a fresh interpretation of political economy’s contribution to the development of the European Enlightenment. Jesús Astigarraga shows that, far from being a straightforward intellectual phenomenon, this new science played a crucial role in both the circulating and institutionalisation of Enlightenment culture and the process of political unification and articulation undergone by the Spanish monarchy, which culminated in a constitutional culture.
A Unifying Enlightenment is a fresh interpretation of political economy’s contribution to the development of the European Enlightenment. Jesús Astigarraga shows that, far from being a straightforward intellectual phenomenon, this new science played a crucial role in both the circulating and institutionalisation of Enlightenment culture and the process of political unification and articulation undergone by the Spanish monarchy, which culminated in a constitutional culture.
Price: $167.00
Pages: 326
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions
Publication Date:
26 November 2020
ISBN: 9789004442382
Format: Hardcover
"Astigarraga’s analysis is at its finest when it focuses on the circulation of translations and the transmission of economic ideas. Scholars interested in the growth of institutions that aimed to host and furnish debates about European political-economic ideas will find a rich resource in this book and, in particular, in its extensive bibliography, since the work features a collection of sources which have remained understudied to this day.
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- E. Jones Corredera, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 98, Nº 10, 2021, pags. 1723-1724.
- E. Jones Corredera, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 98, Nº 10, 2021, pags. 1723-1724.
Jesús Astigarraga, Ph.D. in Economics and in History (1991, 2015), University of Zaragoza (Spain), is Professor of Political Economy at that university. He has published monographs and many chapters and articles on the Spanish Enlightenment, including, as editor, The Spanish Enlightenment Revisited (Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2015).