Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 18th Century

Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso's The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739) argues that the pace and character of the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America in the early eighteenth century were determined by relations between New Granadan elites and authorities in Spain, reflected changes in European geopolitical configurations, and echoed the aims behind innovation in the Iberian Peninsula. At the same time, the book stresses the hierarchical and asymmetrical nature of interactions across the empire and the importance of changes...

By studying the operation of court theatre under Emperors Joseph II and Leopold II, Link here provides a context for Mozart's career as an opera composer in Vienna. The book brings together a large number of hitherto unavailable primary sources (including the diary of Count Carl Zinzendorff, the theatre account books and records, and other contemporary records such as posters, almanacs, and newspapers) to present a cohesive view of the court theatre of the time.