Gabriel B. Paquette Libri

This book offers a new interpretation of political reform in Spain and its American empire in the second half of the Eighteenth century. It examines the intellectual foundation of commercial, administrative and colonial policy during the tumultuous reigns of Charles III and Charles IV.

Portugal made great efforts to tie its territories together, but the Luso- Brazilian empire eventually succumbed to revolution like its British, French and Spanish counterparts. This book reveals the links and relationships between Portugal and Brazil that survived the demise of empire and shaped the trajectories of the two countries.

An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship