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Crisis in an Atlantic Empire : Spain and New Spain, 1808-1810
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Reflecting the authors' masterful use of archival sources and their magisterial knowledge of the era's complex metropolitan and colonial institutions, this volume is the capstone of a research ende...
Reflecting the authors' masterful use of archival sources and their magisterial knowledge of the era's complex metropolitan and colonial institutions, this volume is the capstone of a research endeavor spanning nearly sixty years.
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- English
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- 1st ed
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014
- ©2015
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- 1 online resource (808 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781421414249, 1421414252, 1421414244, 9781421414256
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- ocn897815202, ocn870335180
- Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- Part One: Metropole -- 1. A National Drama, Act II: Aranjuez -- 2. Bayonne -- 3. Dos de Mayo: Insurgency -- 4. Sevilla: The Struggle for Supremacy in Spain and New Spain -- Part Two: Colony -- 5. A Contested Authority -- 6. New Spain's Cuban Counterpoint -- 7. The Powerful and Insecure: Mexico City's Almaceneros, 1808 -- 8. The Audiencia de México, Iturrigaray, and Talamantes -- 9. Melchor Talamantes: Criollo Exponent of New Spain's Interests -- 10. Sevilla's Comisionados and Mexico City's Juntas -- 11. Viceroy Iturrigaray: Criollos and a Viceroy's Grand Design -- 12. Anatomy of a Colonial Coup d'État: Mexico City, 1808 -- Part Three: Metropole -- 13. Junta de Sevilla, Consejo de Castilla, and the Genesis of the Junta Central -- 14. Junta Central: Ideologues and Ideology -- 15. Junta Central versus Junta de Sevilla: The Colonial Question -- 16. Financing the Resistance in Spain -- 17. Dissolution of the Junta Central -- 18. Regencia and Junta de Cadiz -- 19. The Pivotal Orden of 17 May 1810 -- 20. Colonial Insurrection and the Call for the Cortes -- Part Four: Colony -- 21. An Eroding Colonial System: New Spain, 1808-1810 -- 22. Fissures in the Colonial Elite: Merchants -- 23. Fire under the Embers: Between Preemptive Coup and Insurrection -- 24. The Regencia's Comisionados and Bishop-Elect Abad y Queipo -- 25. Oprimidos y Opresores -- 26. "No Hay Más Recurso Que Ir a Coger Gachupines" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z