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  2. Bourbon Reforms - Wikipedia

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    With these losses, Spain relied primarily on its American colonies to maintain its position as a European power. [10] The Bourbon Reforms transitioned Spain's economic policy to be increasingly mercantilist, [21] an economic policy in which countries maximize their exports and minimize their imports to secure greater portion of wealth from a ...

  3. Enlightenment in Spain - Wikipedia

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    After the War of the Spanish Succession, the Bourbon dynasty was to rule the Spanish crown, on the concession to their enemies that the Spanish and French crowns were never merged, and the cession of Spanish possessions elsewhere in Europe. Once they consolidated rule in Spain, the Bourbon monarchs embarked upon a series of reforms to ...

  4. Bourbon Restoration in France - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the absolutist Ancien Régime, the Restoration Bourbon regime was a constitutional monarchy, with some limits on its power. The new king, Louis XVIII, accepted the vast majority of reforms instituted from 1792 to 1814. Continuity was his basic policy. He did not try to recover land and property taken from the royalist exiles.

  5. History of Spain (1700–1808) - Wikipedia

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    European politics at the end of the 17th century became dominated by establishing an orderly succession in Spain that would not alter the balance between Europe's great powers. Bourbon France and Habsburg Austria and its allies went to war to determine the successor to Charles. The prize was the wealth of the Spanish Empire.

  6. Restoration (Spain) - Wikipedia

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    The Restoration (Spanish: Restauración) or Bourbon Restoration (Spanish: ... Spain's economy had lagged even further behind that of other European countries. During ...

  7. 1776 in Spain - Wikipedia

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    The year 1776 was a period of enlightenment and change for Spain, a nation then under the rule of King Charles III, one of the most progressive Bourbon monarchs. This era, part of the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, saw Spain grapple with internal reforms and external challenges that would shape its trajectory towards modernization.

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    New Orleans officials in 2017 began installing bollards along Bourbon Street to limit vehicle access and ... And though Europe has seen many similar attacks − including a truck attack in 2016 ...

  9. Philip V of Spain - Wikipedia

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    in The Origins of Bourbon Reform in Spanish South America, 1700–1763 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) pp. 43–62. Petrie, Sir Charles (1958). The Spanish Royal House. London, England: Geoffrey Bles. Storrs, Christopher. "The Spanish Risorgimento in the Western Mediterranean and Italy 1707–1748." European History Quarterly 42.4 (2012): 555–577.