A Unifying Enlightenment

This book contains a systematic study of economic institutions during the Spanish Enlightenment in the area of print culture, education and the organisation of financial matters at state level. The book is a fresh interpretation of political economy's contribution to the development of the European Enlightenment. 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--