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Pages: 205
Pages: 205
Type: BOOK - Published: 1931-07-31 - Publisher: Bucknell University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 271
Pages: 271
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-13 - Publisher: Springer Nature
This book is about Enlightenment culture in Spanish America before Independence—in short, there where, according to Hegel, one would least expect to find it.
Language: en
Pages: 481
Pages: 481
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-30 - Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Why has the work of writers in eighteenth-century Latin America been forgotten? During the eighteenth century, enlightened thinkers in Spanish territories in th
Language: en
Pages: 490
Pages: 490
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
An Economist Book of the Year, 2001. In the 18th century, a debate ensued over the French naturalist Buffon’s contention that the New World was in fact geolog
Language: en
Pages: 299
Pages: 299
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-08 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Carib