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.
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.
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 » ![]()



