Preface 1. The case for the Enlightenment 2. Scotland and Naples in 1700 3. The intellectual worlds of Naples and Scotland 1680-c.1725 4. The predicament of 'kingdoms governed as provinces' 5. Vico, after Bayle 6. Hume, after Bayle and Mandeville 7. The advent of Enlightenment: political economy in Naples and Scotland 1730-1760 Conclusion: the Enlightenment vindicated? Bibliography Index.

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The case for the Enlightenment : Scotland and Naples, 1680-1760

Cesare Beccaria's influence on English discussions of punishment, 1764–1789

Planter, statesman, and economic reformer Francisco Arango y Parreno (1765–1837) was the spokesman for Havana's emergent planter elite and was also among the major architects of Cuba's sugar boom during the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1792, in the midst of the slave insurrection in Saint Domingue, Arango, Apoderado General of the Havana ayuntamiento, addressed a series of memorials to the Spanish Crown culminating in Discurso sobre la Agricultura de la Habana y Medios de Fomentarla (Arango 1793a:114–75). These documents at once articulated the interests of the Havana planter class and formulated Arango's program for the transformation of Cuban economic life. Widely regarded as key texts of Cuban history, they provided the theoretical framework for the development of Cuba into the world's leading sugar producer from the 1820s into the twentieth century. At the same time, they express the creation of new zones of slave production as part of the political and economic restructuring of the world economy that I have elsewhere called the “second slavery” (Tomich 1988). An examination of these works thus calls attention to the continual re-formation of slavery and other forms of compulsory labor as part of the historical development of the capitalist world economy and to the ways that highly specific local actions at once shape and are shaped by global processes.

The Wealth of Empire: Francisco Arango y Parreño, Political Economy, and the Second Slavery in Cuba

This thesis seeks to answer a disarmingly simple question: what did it feel like to use an Etruscan pot? It does so through the development of a new methodology for ceramic analysis, created from a practical application of phenomenological thought to the Etruscan archaeological record The Etruscan world of the Archaic period, approximately 650 to 450 BCE, would have been filled with images, colours, and sensations, fragments of all of which remain wrapped up in the pottery which was deposited in tombs and on domestic sites throughout the period By analysing the experience of using such vessels, the thesis goes on to develop new interpretations of the role of pots and their contents in Etruscan society, particularly the Etruscan use of alcohol and the structure of formal feasting events The presence of new pottery forms, with novel imagery imported from the Greek Eastern Mediterranean, provides a comparison which drives the analysis By re-conceptualising these iconic imports as foci for Etruscan experiences, the relationship between these predominantly Attic ceramics and their Etruscan users is recast to emphasise the contrasts in ceramic usage brought in by these new vessels, and the shifts in behaviour, belief and banqueting that potentially accompanied them

Experiencing Etruscan pots : ceramics, bodies and images in archaic Etruria

In The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia (1568–1789) Girolamo Imbruglia describes the religious foundation of the Jesuit missions in Paraguay and the discussion of that experience by the public opinion of Early Modern Europe, from Montaigne to Diderot.

Susan Corsi

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Italy and the Enlightenment: Studies in a Cosmopolitan Century