The Iberian World : 1450–1820 (Hardcover)

Part I. The Iberian Peninsula (15th - 17th century) 1. The Iberian polities in the late 15th century: union of crowns and territorial consolidation 2. The political constitution of the Iberian monarchies 3. The Iberian polities within Europe: politics and the building of monarchies 4. Religious identities in the Iberian world 5. Iberia, North Africa and the Mediterranean 6. The union between Portugal and the Spanish Monarchy (1581-1640) 7. The Iberian society 8. Gender: structures and roles 9. Economies and Trade 10. Cultures and communication across the Iberian world 11. Identities and counter-identities Part II. Expansion and empires (15th to 17th century) 12. Iberian expansions: the construction of world empires 13. Administration and government of the Iberian empires 14. The patterns of Spanish and Portuguese colonisation in America 15. Africans, Asians and Amerindians vis a vis the Iberian Monarchies 16. The slave trade 17. Colonial societies 18. Imperial economies 19. The arts and cultures of the Iberian colonial experience Part III. The 18th century Iberian world 20. Enlightened politics in Portugal and Spain 21. Enlightened reformism in Iberian culture and science 22. Imperial competition in the Americas 23. Reformism in Spanish and Portuguese America 24. Iberian world empires 25. Social changes within the Iberian world 26. New imperial economies Part IV. The Iberian world in the age of revolutions 27. Protest and resistance against colonial rule in Iberian America 28. Wars and Revolutions 29. Spain and Portugal under the newly established liberal regimes 30. Independences