MSP 4342 History of Bourbon Spain: The Age of Revolution
A study of Spanish history during the two hundred and thirty years of Bourbon rule, from 1700 to 1931. Includes discussion of the loss of Spain’s Empire in Europe, the administrative and economic reforms of the Enlightenment, the great international conflicts of the eighteenth century, the Peninsular War against Napoleon, the loss of Spain’s Empire in America, the fall of the Old Regime, the political instability of the nineteenth century and the conflicts that led to the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. One of the main topics of the course is the question of the "two Spains."