Officers of the Bourbon Army and Navy: Reform, Loyalty and Identity (1750-1808)

  • Antonio Calvo Maturana Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/CHMO.53819
Keywords: Officers, Bourbon Army, Homeland, Nation, Morla, Cadalso, Jorge Juan, Enlightenment, Reformism, XVIII Century.

Abstract

This essay looks at Spanish Officers of the Bourbon Army and Navy during the second half of the XVIII Century from a cultural perspective. Relevant case studies will enable an analysis of the image provided by royal propaganda as well as an overview of its reception amongst this elite. Officers’ vertical relationships (God and the king) as well as their horizontal relationships (homeland, citizenship and friendship) can be related to many areas of debate in that century, debates which tested and disrupted the cosmogony of these servants of the Absolute Monarchy.

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Calvo Maturana A. (2016). Officers of the Bourbon Army and Navy: Reform, Loyalty and Identity (1750-1808). Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, 41(2), 467-495. https://doi.org/10.5209/CHMO.53819
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Vol. 41 No. 2 (2016): Entre Marte y Minerva. Los Reales Ejércitos Borbónicos, del reformismo al mito
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