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.

Introduction. Part 1: THE IBERIAN PENINSULA (FIFTEENTH¿SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) 1 The shaping of the Iberian polities in the late fifteenth 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 (fifteenth-seventeenth centuries). 11 Religious conversion and identities in the Iberian peninsula. 12 Black Africans in the Iberian peninsula (1400-1820). Part 2: EXPANSION AND EMPIRES (FIFTEENTH¿SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) 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. Tatiana Seijas and Ângela Barreto Xavier 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. Part 3: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IBERIAN WORLD 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. Part 4: THE IBERIAN WORLD IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS 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.