The end of Iberian rule on the American continent, 1770-1830 /
In this new work, Brian R. Hamnett offers a comprehensive assessment of the independence era in both Spanish America and Brazil by examining the interplay between events in Iberia and in the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal. Most colonists had wanted some form of unity within the Spanish and P...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. One sole monarchy: 'one sole nation'--advocates, critics, and challengers
- Negotiation, networks, linkages
- An alternative vision? Andean perceptions of the Hispanic monarchy
- The idea of metropolis and empire as one nation
- Part II. Salvaging the greater nation--constitutionalism or absolutism?
- Iberian monarchies in crisis: juntas, congresses, constitutions
- Hispanic America--violence unleashed
- The first Spanish constitutional experiment: the 'one sole nation' and its opponents (1810-1814)
- The counter-revolution and its opponents (1814-1820)
- Part III. Shattering the greater nation: fragmentation, separate sovereign states, and the search for legitimacy
- Metropolitan Iberia: focus of disunion (1820-1830)
- The divergence of the American territories and the collapse of their former metropoles (1820-1830)
- Independence--territory, peoples, nations
- Final reflections.