Ebook: Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy, c. 1680-1740 (Liverpool University Press - Hispanic Studies TRAC)

Sceptres and Sciences argues convincingly that previous research on the Hispanic Late Baroque has underweighted the ideologies of ethnicity and empire embedded in Cartesianism and French neoclassicism. "... a masterful work of scholarship... should become essential reading in the field of Colonial and Spanish Enlightenment Studies."—Bulletin of Hispanic Studies