Diplomatic Enlightenment

Edward Jones Corredera is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge in 2020.

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1 The Missing CenturyThe Enlightenment, the Nation, and Modern Spain1 Introduction2 The Nineteenth-Century Spanish Enlightenment3 The Twentieth-Century View of the Absence of the Spanish Enlightenment4 Religion and the Spanish Political Elites5 The Diplomatic Enlightenment2 Predicting War and Peace1 Introduction2 Spain, Europe, and Arbitrary Monarchy3 Crisis and Catharsis: The Dawn of the Early Spanish Enlightenment4 What News Do You Bring?5 Information Overload and Elite Political Debate3 Investing in the Luces1 Introduction2 Shorting Diplomacy3 Representations of the Spanish Empire4 The Assembly of Public Trust5 Luces in the Mines6 The Seminary of Lawsuits: Law, Trade, and Corporations7 José Carvajal y Lancaster and the Arbitration of Europe8 Private Vices, Public Virtues, and Diplomatic Cooperation9 Coins, Corporations, China, and Europe10 The Naval Officer and the Aristocrat4 Revolts and ReturnsFree Trade and the Fear of Independence1 Introduction2 Investing in a New Timepiece3 Mapping Reform in Enlightenment Europe4 Free Trade: The Farce of Independence and the Growth of Spanish Political Economic Debate5 The Perils of Emulation: Corporations and the Meaning of the Spanish Empire6 The Criticism of Carvajal’s Joint-Stock Companies5 The Lever of the Balance of Power1 Introduction2 Iberia’s Role in Europe3 Borders and Trade4 Investing in Peace5 A Monarchy without a King6 Carthage’s ContractorsThe Ends of the Spanish Empire1 Introduction2 The Grain Monopoly and the Voice of the People3 The Idea of the Nation: Outsourcing Propaganda and Colonisation4 Constitutionalism in the Spanish Empire and the International Order7 ConclusionBibliographyIndex