Latin America and the enlightenment / essays by Arthur P. Whitaker [and others] ; introduction by Federico de Onís ; edited by Arthur P. Whitaker.

New York ; London : D. Appleton-Century Company, [1942], ©1942.

xiii, 130 pages ; 21 cm.

The first four essays were presented in the discussion of "Latin American and the eighteenth-century enlightenment" in one of the sessions of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association at New York in December 1940. cf. Prefatory note

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The dual rôle of Latin America in the enlightenment, by A. P. Whitaker.--Traces of French enlightenment in colonial Hispanic America, by R. D. Hussey.--Some inter-American aspects of the enlightenment, by Harry Bernstein.--The reception of the enlightenment in Latin America, by J. T. Lanning.--Aspects of the enlightenment in Brazil, by Alexander Marchant.--The Spanish government and the enlightenment in America, by A. S. Aiton.

Includes bibliographies