Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2007

Department 1

Latin American Studies

Department 2

Spanish

Abstract

A fines del siglo 18, Vandelli y Jovellanos retornan a las reformas pombalinas y borbónicas de Portugal y España, respectivamente, para esbozar un proyecto que complete la modernización. Buscaban encarar la Modernidad de la Europa de Norte examinando la trayectoria cultural ibérica para diseñar su propia Modernidad. Esta Modernidad debía estar organizada en torno a la relación entre ética y economía sobre un programa cuya fortaleza surgía del mundo rural. Bajo esta perspectiva, ambos autores le dan forma a una narrativa cultural que integra tecnología, control demográfico y agricultura en función de un proyecto de modernización de la península ibérica.

By the end of the 18th century, Vandelli and Jovellanos looked back on the Pombaline and Borbonic reforms in Portugal and Spain, respectively, to propose reforms that could complete their modernization. They wanted to match North European Modernity by examining the cultural trajectory of the Iberian empires to forge their own Modernity. That Modernity should be organized around a relationship between ethics and economics, and engaged in a political program whose strength was coming from the rural world. Both of them give form to a cultural narrative that integrates technology, demographic control and agriculture in order to modernize the Iberian Peninsula.

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