Gaspar Melchor De Jovellanos

'Report on the Agrarian Law' (1795) and Other Writings

Herausgeber: Caso Bello, Álvaro; Paquette, Gabriel

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Produktbeschreibung

'Report on the Agrarian Law' (1795) and Other Writings is the first modern English translation of perhaps the greatest work of the Spanish Enlightenment, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos's Informe de la Ley Agraria (1795, Report on the Agrarian Law). Informe de la Ley Agraria is a major work of political economy as well as a beautifully crafted philosophical history of Spain's political development until the eighteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9781783086290
• ISBN-10: 1783086297
• Artikelnr.: 45642176

Autorenporträt

Gabriel Paquette is professor of history at The Johns Hopkins University. Álvaro Caso Bello is a PhD candidate at The Johns Hopkins University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminaries
Introduction
Report on the Agrarian Law (1795)
On the need to combine the study of history and antiquities with the study of law (1780)
Eulogy in Praise of Charles III (1788)
Inaugural Address to the Royal Asturian Institute (1794)
On the Need to Combine the Study of Literature with the Study of the Sciences (1797)
Index.