Crisis in an Atlantic empire : Spain and New Spain, 1808-1810 /
Stein, Barbara H.,author.
Stein, Stanley J.,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 759-772) and index.
Prologue -- Metropole. A national drama, act II : Aranjuez ; Bayonne ; Dos de Mayo : insurgency ; Sevilla : the struggle for supremacy in Spain and New Spain -- Colony. A contested authority ; New Spain's Cuban counterpoint ; The powerful and insecure : Mexico City's almaceneros, 1808 ; The Audiencia de México, Iturrigaray, and Talamantes ; Melchor Talamantes : criollo exponent of New Spain's interests ; Sevilla's comisionados and Mexico City's Juntas ; Viceroy Iturrigaray : criollos and a viceroy's grand design ; Anatomy of a colonial coup d'état : Mexico City, 1808 -- Metropole. Junta de Sevilla, Consejo de Castilla and the genesis of the Junta Central ; Junta Central : ideologues and ideology ; Junta Central versus Junta de Sevilla : the colonial question ; Financing the resistance in Spain ; Dissolution of the Junta Central ; Regencia and Junta de Cadiz ; The pivotal orden of May 17, 1810 ; Colonial insurrection and the call for the Cortes -- Colony. An eroding colonial system : New Spain, 1808-1810 ; Fissures in the colonial elite : merchants ; Fire under the embers : between pre-emptive coup and insurrection ; The Regencia's comisionados and Bishop-Elect Abad y Queipo ; Oprimidos y opresores ; "No hay más recurso que ir a coger gachupines" -- Conclusion.