"Edward Jones Corredera, the author of this brilliant book, takes a rigorous historical look at a crucial subject, where international law intersects with politics, religion, culture, moral economy, and finance. An essential reading for anyone who wishes to know in depth not only the irruption of Spanish American countries in the world scene, but, more broadly, the intellectual assumptions on which international relations in the modern world were founded." -- Javier Fernández-Sebastián, Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of the Basque Country"Odious Debt is an important interdisciplinary contribution to the global intellectual history of international law, the political economy of foreign debts, and the modern inception of Latin America in international society. Edward Jones Corredera´ s superb book illuminates the importance of foreign debts for the global history and political economy of international law, and the regional history of constitutional building in Latin America. A must read for international lawyers, historians, IR scholars, and political economists." -- Juan Pablo Scarfi, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Chile"Odious Debt is an illuminating work of intellectual history. The book is longue dure´ e and encompasses the entire Hispanic world, and it intervenes in multiple bodies of scholarship, including Latin American independence, the history of international law, and, naturally, the history of (postcolonial) debt. Odious Debt is a very refreshing intervention in the intellectual history of Latin American independence in how it focuses political economy as both a theme and material context of political thought.

Moreover, one of the book's most valuable contributionsis in helping to build an earlier history of Latin American international law, rooted before the mid-nineteenth century." -- Peter Morgan, Hispanic American Historical.