Giles MacDonogh
He Hated Jesuits And He Hated The English
Pombal: Paradox Of The Enlightenment
By Kenneth Maxwell
Cambridge University Press 188pp £25.00 order from our bookshop
The Marquedse Pombal was without doubt one of the most important figures of the eighteenth century. As a mere minister, he set out to reform Portugal in a way only achieved elsewhere by powerful monarchs such as Joseph II of Austria or Frederick the Great of Prussia. He has been called the Portuguese Colbert, but comparisons with Bismarck also spring to mind.
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