Hamnett The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770–1830

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-316-80577-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770–1830 charts the dissolution of Ibero-America, contending that independence was not a given but rather the consequence of fiscal and administrative weakness in both the Spanish and Portuguese Empires in America, accompanied by a series of civil wars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamnett, Brian R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. One Sole Monarch: 'One Sole Nation' – Advocates, Critics, and Challengers: 1. Negotiation, networks, linkages; 2. An alternative vision? Andean perceptions of the Hispanic monarchy; 3. The idea of metropolis and empire as one nation; Part II. Salvaging the Greater Nation: Constitutionalism or Absolutism?: 4. Iberian monarchies in crisis: juntas, congresses, constitutions; 5. Hispanic America – violence unleashed; 6. The first Spanish constitutional experiment: the 'one sole nation' and its opponents (1810–1814); 7. The counter-revolution and its opponents (1814–1820); Part III. Shattering the Greater Nation: Fragmentation, Separate Sovereign States, and the Search for Legitimacy: 8. Metropolitan Iberia – focus of disunion (1820–1830); 9. The divergence of the American territories (1820–1830); 10. Independence – territory, peoples, nations; Final reflections; Bibliography; Index.