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099 $aDP641.M39 1995
100 1 $aMaxwell, Kenneth,$d1941-
245 10 $aPombal :$bparadox of the Enlightenment /$cKenneth
Maxwell.
260 $aCambridge [England] :$aNew York :$bCambridge
University Press,$c1995.
263 $a9503.
300 $axvii, 200 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 167-185)
and index.
520 1 $a"This is the first major study in English for
over half a century of one of Portugal's most important
historical figures, Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Melo,
marques de Pombal (1699-1782), who is best known today as
the key figure in the reconstruction of Lisbon after the
devastating earthquake of 1755." "Pombal's achievements,
however, went far beyond the reconstruction of the capital.
An unusually single-minded and ruthless first minister, he
was also one of the eighteenth century's most successful
"enlightened despots": for example, he reformed the
Portuguese system of education, expelled the Jesuits from
Portugal, thereby beginning the process leading to their
suppression by the pope in 1773, and mounted a formidable
challenge to British commercial hegemony in Portugal."
"Recent renewed interest in the theory of enlightened
absolutism has tended to ignore developments in the Iberian
peninsula. This book is therefore essential to a full
understanding of the complexities and paradoxes of
enlightened rulership in a southern European context."--BOOK
JACKET.
600 10 $aPombal, Sebastiäao Josâe de Carvalho e
Melo,$cMarquães de,$d1699-1782.
650 0 $aEnlightenment.
650 0 $aStatesmen$zPortugal$xBiography.
651 0 $aPortugal$xPolitics and government$y1750-1777.
