The Cambridge history of the age of atlantic Revolutions. Volume III, The Iberian empires / [edited by] Wim Klooster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klooster, Wim, editor.

Series:

The Cambridge History of the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--History--18th century.

Revolutions.

Social change--History--18th century.

Social change.

Revolutions--History--19th century.

Social change--History--19th century.

History, Modern--18th century.

History, Modern.

History, Modern--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 612 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Volume III covers the Iberian Empires and the important ethnic dimension of the Ibero-American independence movements, revealing the contrasting dynamics created by the Spanish imperial crisis at home and in the colonies. It bears out the experimental nature of political changes, the shared experiences and contrasts across different areas, and the connections to the revolutionary French Caribbean. The special nature of the emancipatory processes launched in the European metropoles of Spain and Portugal is explored, as are the connections between Spanish America and Brazil, as well as between Brazil and Portuguese Africa. It ends with an assessment of Brazil and how the survival of slavery is shown to have been essential to the new monarchy, although simultaneously, enslaved people began pressing their own demands, just like the indigenous population.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Imprints page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

Contributors to Volume III

Preface

Introduction

Rights

Sovereignty and Public Opinion

Democracy

Women

Economic Equality

Violence

Royalism

Counterrevolution and Banditry

International Dimensions

The Realm of Freedom

Part I The Spanish Empire

1 The Spanish Empire: General Overview

Interpretations

Periodizations

The Crisis of the Empire

Colonial Reactions

The First Phase of Independence (1810-1814)

The Road to Independence

Unfulfilled Promises

2 The Spanish Empire on the Eve of American Independence

The Bourbon Reforms in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire

The Age of Revolutions in Spanish America and Beyond

3 The Cortes of Cádiz and the Spanish Liberal Revolution of 1810-1814: Atlantic and Spanish American Dimensions

The Cortes of Cádiz from an Atlantic Perspective

The Prelude

The Cortes of Cádiz

The Spanish American Deputies

Application of the Constitution in America

Final Remarks

4 The Constitutional Triennium in Spain, 1820-1823

Fernando VII's Restoration and the Liberal Opposition, 1814-1819

The Revolution

The Liberal Program

The Many Faces of Liberalism: Moderados and exaltados

Popular Politics under the Constitutional Regime

The Spanish Model in Southern Europe

Liberal Struggles and Reactionary Conspiracies

The Civil War and the King's Coup d'État

The American Question

Foreign Intervention and the Fall of the Constitutional Regime

Constitutional Spain: A Sanctuary for European Liberals

5 Mexico: From Civil War to the War of Independence, 1808-1825

The Political Crisis of 1808

Civil War

The Military Dictatorship.

The Plan of Iguala and the Start of the War of Independence

Veracruz, the Tip of the Scale

6 Central America

Central America in an Age of Reform, 1750-1796

Imperial Crisis, 1796-1811

Colonial Confrontations, 1811-1814

Absolutism Restored: 1814-1818

Creole Autonomy: 1818-1821

Conclusion

7 War and Revolution in the Southern Cone, 1808-1824

South American Reactions to the Imperial Crisis of 1808

Civil War in the Southern Cone

The Americanist Strategy

From Americanism to the National States

8 Caribbean South America: Free People of Color, Republican Experiments, Military Strategies, and the Caribbean Connection on the Path to Independence

Demographics: A Pardo Coast

Political Experiments: An Ephemeral Republican Vanguard

Military Strategies: War to the Death and Reconquista

Caribbean Connections

Conclusion: Shifting Perspectives and Recalibrating Scale

9 The Southernmost Revolution: The Río de la Plata in the Early Nineteenth Century

A Young Viceroyalty

British Invasions and Metropolitan Collapse

Revolution

Rival Projects

From Independence to Crisis

Many Endings

Aftermath

10 Royalists, Monarchy, and Political Transformation in the Spanish Atlantic World during the Age of Revolutions

The Hispanic Revolution: The Spanish Nation and the Cádiz Constitution

Scales of Loyalty: Local and Hemispheric Territorial Dynamics

War and Constitutions in Spanish America

Royalism between Absolutism and Liberalism

The Royalist Army in the Wars of Independence

The Monarchical Restoration and Return to Absolutism: 1814-1820

Constitutional Rule, Again: 1820-1823

Independence, Insular Loyalty, and the Royalist Diaspora

11 Africans and Their Descendants in the Spanish Empire in the Age of Revolutions.

12 Concepts on the Move: Constitution, Citizenship, Federalism, and Liberalism across Spain and Spanish Atlantic

The Iberian Atlantic: A Conceptual Laboratory in the Age of Political Experiments

Constitution

Citizenship

Liberalism

Federalism

13 Patriarchy, Misogyny, and Politics in the Age of Revolutions

The New Man

El señorito afeminado

The Useful Mother and Deceitful Woman

14 Impact of the French Caribbean Revolutions in Continental Iberian America, 1791-1833

Common Winds" in Continental Ibero-America

Radical and Moderate Antislavery Positions in Continental Spanish America

Pro-slavery and Elite Arguments

Grégoire's Ties with Ibero-Americans

15 Deferred but not Avoided: Great Britain and Latin American Independence

Background and Early Emancipation Schemes

The Napoleonic Era, 1808-1814

Road to Recognition, 1814-1824

Miners, Merchants, and Money in the 1820s

Education and Culture

Part II Brazil, Portugal, and Africa

16 Overview: The Independence Era in the Luso-Brazilian World

17 Portugal's Social and Political Change from the Ancien Régime to Liberalism

The Intercontinental Monarchy and the Reforms

The Ancien Régime

The French Invasions

1820

Social Categories and Political Discourse

War and Change

18 Conservative Tracks toward Independence: Transfer of the Court to Rio de Janeiro, the Porto Revolution, and Brazilian Autonomy

The Franco-British War and the Escape of the Royal Family

The Royal Family on the Run

Housing the Court in the Tropics

The Codes of Life at Court

Circulation of People

Institutional Shifts in the Luso-Brazilian Empire

The Porto Revolution and the Meeting of the Lisbon Cortes

The Political Rupture between Portugal and Brazil

Conclusions.

19 Building New Brazilian Institutions

The Decision for Brazil, 1807-1816

The Nature of the Monarchy, 1815-1824

The Challenges of the Monarchy in Brazil: 1824-1831

Legacy

20 Slaves, Indians, and the "Classes of Color": Popular Participation in Brazilian Independence

General Contexts

Slaves

Indigenous Peoples

The Classes of Color

21 Brazil and the Independence of Spanish America: Parallel Trajectories, Linked Processes (1807-1825)

Portugal, Brazil, and the Start of Independence in Spanish America (1807-1815)

Articulated Independences (1816-1825)

Impact of Brazil on Spanish America

22 Waves of Sedition across the Atlantic: Liberal Politics in Angola in the Wake of Brazilian Independence (c. 1817-1825)

An Integrated South Atlantic

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Oct 2023).

ISBN:

9781108682565

1108682561

9781108612883

1108612881

9781108598248

1108598242