... Latin America and the enlightenment / essays by Arthur P. Whitaker [and others] ... introduction by Federico de Onís; edited by Arthur P. Whitaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitaker, Arthur Preston, 1895-1979.

Series:

Appleton-Century historical essays

The Appleton-Century historical essays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment.

Latin America--Intellectual life.

Latin America.

Intellectual life.

Brazil--Intellectual life.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

xiii, 130 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, [1942]

Contents:

The dual rôle of Latin America in the enlightenment, by A. P. Whitaker.

Traces of French enlightenment in colonial Hispanic America, by R. D. Hussey.

Some inter-American aspects of the enlightenment, by Harry Bernstein.

The reception of the enlightenment in Latin America, by J. T. Lanning.

Aspects of the enlightenment in Brazil, by Alexander Marchant.

The Spanish government and the enlightenment in America, by A. S. Aiton.

Notes:

The first four essays were presented in the discussion of "Latin American and the eighteenth-century enlightenment" in one of the sessions of the annual meeting of the American historical association at New York in December 1940. cf. Prefatory note.

Includes bibliographies.

OCLC:

1961638