The Spanish and American Enlightenment (1869-1921). A commercial and cultural product

Abstract

This article deals with analyzing the strategies that Abelardo Carlos y Almansa used to place La Ilustración Española y Americana in Mexico’s publishing market. It stresses editorial competition meant for the publisher, the work of French printers who successfully distributed El Correo de Ultramar. It shows the importance of networks of peninsular journalists, booksellers, publishers and writers residents in Mexico, to promote consumption, sale, circulation and distribution of the Spanish magazine. As well as relations between members of the Real Academia Española, with their counterparts from the Mexican Academy, which encouraged both the periodic reading and the collaboration of its members.