The end of Iberian rule on the American continent, 1770-1830
By: Brian Hamnett, University of Essex
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781107174641; 9781316626634
Subjects: Politics and government; Colonies; History
Description: 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 Portuguese monarchies but European intransigence continually frustrated this aim. Hamnett argues that independence finally came as a result of widespread internal conflict in the two American empires, rather than as a result of a clear separatist ideology or a growing national sentiment. With the collapse of empire, each component territory faced a struggle to survive. The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770-1830 is the first book of its kind to give equal consideration to the Spanish and Portuguese dimensions of South America, examining these territories in terms of their divergent component elements. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. One sole monarchy: 'one sole nation'; title: advocates, critics, and challengers; title: Negotiation, networks, linkages; title: An alternative vision? Andean perceptions of the Hispanic monarchy; title: The idea of metropolis and empire as one nation; title: Part II. Salvaging the greater nation; title: constitutionalism or absolutism?; title: Iberian monarchies in crisis: juntas, congresses, constitutions; title: Hispanic America; title: violence unleashed; title: The first Spanish constitutional experiment: the 'one sole nation' and its opponents (1810-1814); title: The counter-revolution and its opponents (1814-1820); title: Part III. Shattering the greater nation: fragmentation, separate sovereign states, and the search for legitimacy; title: Metropolitan Iberia: focus of disunion (1820-1830); title: The divergence of the American territories and the collapse of their former metropoles (1820-1830); title: Independence; title: territory, peoples, nations; title: Final reflections.