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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Definitions of "Empire" and Approaches to the Study of Its History -- 2. Western Europe in a World of Empires -- 3. The First Seaborne Empires: Portugal, Spain, and the Wider World before 1600 -- 4. The Challenge to Iberian Dominance: The Rise of Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic as Competitor Imperial States after 1600 -- 5. Consolidation, Conflict, and Reform in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 6. Law, Governance, and Institutional Frameworks -- 7. The Political Economy of Empire and Its Consequences -- 8. Imperial Migrations: Coerced, Forced, and "Free" -- 9. Labor Regimes -- 10. Creole Societies, Mestizaje, and the Regulation of Hybridity -- 11. Collaboration, Resistance, and the Fortunes of Empire -- 12. The Age of Revolutions -- Epilogue: Continuities and Disjunctures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This essay is an introduction to a special issue on 'Liberalism in the Early Nineteenth-century Iberian World'. The essay reviews why Iberian intellectual history, particularly liberal political thought, has been neglected in English-language scholarship. It offers suggestions for the incorporation of Portuguese and Spanish language texts into the broader canon. The essay then outlines persistent debates common to the study of liberalism in both Iberian and other national contexts, in an effort to instigate a dialogue between intellectual historians of Spain and Portugal and their counterparts elsewhere. It concludes with a consideration of the geopolitical forces, cultural trends, and social conditions that encouraged the forging of transnational liberalism in the early nineteenth century. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]

The dissolution of the Luso-Brazilian empire weakened, but did not destroy, the political, intellectual and economic connections between Portugal and Brazil. This article argues that Portuguese and Brazilian politics remained entangled in the late 1820s, well after Independence. Using Portugal's 1826 Constitution, or Carta Constitucional, as a test case, the article examines the intellectual influences shaping the Carta, investigates its Brazilian 'origins', analyses its reception in Portugal, and traces the reaction to it by Europe's leading geopolitical powers.