This book is about Enlightenment culture in Spanish America before Independence—in short, there where, according to Hegel, one would least expect to find it.

Innovatively revisits Latin American independence and its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions.

The overthrow of Viceroy Joaqu&ín de la Pezuela on 29 January 1821 has not received much attention from historians, who have viewed it as a simple military upr

Women’s reproduction, including conception, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and other physical acts of motherhood (as well as the rejection of those rol

That the Enlightenment shaped modernity is uncontested. Yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the process of ideas from the poli