Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea from the Department of Modern Languages has just co-edited a book with Scott Eastman, Associate Professor at Creighton University, entitled The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World (University of Alabama Press, 2015).
The edited collection follows on from the recent bicentenary of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812, the first liberal constitution of the Hispanic world.
The Constitution was extremely influential in and beyond Europe, and the essays within the book explore how its enduring legacy not only shaped the history of state-building, elections, and municipal governance in Iberian America, but also affected national identities and citizenship as well as the development of race and gender in the region. It sheds new light on the early, liberal Hispanic societies and show how the legacies of those societies shape modern Spain and Latin America.
For full details, please see the publisher’s webpage here:
www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Rise-of-Constitutional-Government-in-the-Iberian-A,5993.aspx