academic Publications

 

Edited Volume

Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750-1830. Empires and the Making of the Modern World Series. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2009.

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Selected reviews:

Journal of Latin American Studies
Dieciocho
Reviews in History

 

Guest-Edited Journal Issue

(With Matthew Brown) “Europe and Latin America in the 1820s”. European History Quarterly 41:3 (2011).

 

(with Matthew Brown). “Introduction: The Persistence of Mutual Influence: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s”. European History Quarterly 41:3 (2011): 387-396.

 

 

Monograph

Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire, 1759-1808. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Selected reviews:

Journal of Modern History
H.A.H.R.
Revista de Indias
American Historical Review
The Americas

 

Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles

“The Brazilian Origins of the 1826 Portuguese Constitution”. European History Quarterly 41:3 (2011): 444-471.

 

“After Brazil: Portuguese Debates on Empire, c. 1820-1850”. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 11:2 (Fall 2010): [e-format via Project Muse]

 

“José da Silva Lisboa and the Vicissitudes of Enlightened Reform in Brazil, 1798-1824”. In Paquette, ed., Enlightened Reform (2009), pp. 361-388.

 

"The Dissolution of the Spanish Atlantic Monarchy". The Historical Journal 52:1 (2009): 175-212.  Download »

 

“State-Civil Society Cooperation and Conflict in the Spanish Empire: The Intellectual and Political Activities of the Ultramarine Consulados and Economic Societies, c. 1780-1810”. Journal of Latin American Studies 39:2 (2007): 263-298. Download »


“Enlightened Narratives and Imperial Rivalry in Bourbon Spain: The Case of Almodóvar’s Historia Política de los Establecimientos Ultramarinos de las Naciones Europeas (1784-1790)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 48:1 (2007): 61-80. Download »


“Empire, Enlightenment and Regalism: New Directions in Eighteenth-Century Spanish History”. European History Quarterly 35:1 (2005): 107-117.  Download »