The Iberian World 1450–1820

1. The shaping of the Iberian polities in the late ffteenth and early sixteenth centuries
2. The political constitution of the Iberian monarchies
3. The Iberian polities within Europe: politics and state building
4. Religious identities in the Iberian worlds (1500‒1700)
5. Iberia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean
6. The union between Portugal and the Spanish monarchy (1581–1640)
7. Iberian society
8. Women and gender: structures and roles (1400‒1820)
9. The peninsular economies and the impact of globalisation (ca. 1494‒1700)
10. Cultures and communication across the Iberian world (ffteenth–seventeenth centuries)
11. Religious conversion and identities in the Iberian peninsula
12. Black Africans in the Iberian peninsula (1400–1820)
13. Iberian explorations: the construction of global empires (1450‒1650)
14. Administration and government of the Iberian empires
15. Patterns of conquest and settlement of the Iberian Americas
16. Asians in the Iberian world
17. Amerindians in the Iberian world
18. Portugal, Spain, and the transatlantic slave trade
19. Colonial societies in Asia
20. Europeans, Indians, and Africans in the making of colonial societies
21. Imperial economies
22. Artistic experiences in the Iberian world, sixteenth–seventeenth centuries
23. Enlightened politics in Portugal and Spain
24. Enlightened reformism in Iberian culture and science
25. Imperial competition in the eighteenth-century Americas
26. Reform in Spanish and Portuguese America
27. Social change in the eighteenth-century Iberian world
28. New imperial economies
29. Protest and resistance against colonial rule in Iberian America
30. War and revolution in the Iberian Atlantic
31. Portugal and Spain under the newly established liberal regimes
32. Independence in Iberian America

The Iberian World: 1450–1820 brings together, for the first time in English, the latest research in Iberian studies, providing in-depth analysis of fifteenth- to early nineteenth-century Portugal and Spain, their European possessions, and the African, Asian, and American peoples that were under their rule. Featuring innovative work from leading historians of the Iberian world, the book adopts a strong transnational and comparative approach, and offers the reader an interdisciplinary lens through which to view the interactions, entanglements, and conflicts between the many peoples that were part of it. The volume also analyses the relationships and mutual influences between the wide range of actors, polities, and centres of power within the Iberian monarchies, and draws on recent advances in the field to examine key aspects such as Iberian expansion, imperial ideologies, and the constitution of colonial societies. Divided into four parts and combining a chronological approach with a set of in-depth thematic studies, The Iberian World brings together previously disparate scholarly traditions surrounding the history of European empires and raises awareness of the global dimensions of Iberian history. It is essential reading for students and academics of early modern Spain and Portugal.