Charles III: References & Edit History

Biographies of Charles III include Charles Petrie, King Charles III of Spain: An Enlightened Despot (1971); and Charles C. Noel, “Charles III of Spain,” in H.M. Scott (ed.), Enlightened Absolutism: Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe (1990), pp. 119–143. Discussion of his reign, including its political and cultural achievements and reforms, can be found in Richard Herr, The Eighteenth-Century Revolution in Spain (1958, reissued 1969); John Lynch, Spanish Colonial Administration, 1782–1810 (1958, reissued 1969); and V. Rodríguez Casado, La política y los políticos en el reinado de Carlos III (1962).