The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: Volume 3, The Iberian Empires

by Cambridge University Press

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108475969
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/09/2023
Series:	The Cambridge History of the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions
Pages:	800
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.29(h) x 1.34(d)

About the Author

Wim Klooster is the Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Chair and Professor of History and International Relations at Clark University. He is the (co-) author and (co-) editor of twelve books. His monograph The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World (2016) won the Biennial Book Award of the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions and the Hendricks Award of the New Netherland Institute.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Wim Klooster; Part I. The Spanish Empire: 1. The Spanish Empire: general overview Stefan Rinke; 2. The Spanish Empire on the Eve of American Independence Emily Berquist Soule; 3. The Cortes of Cádiz and the Spanish Liberal Revolution of 1810–1814: Atlantic and Spanish American dimensions Roberto Breña; 4. The Constitutional Triennium in Spain, 1820–1823 Juan Luis Simal; 5. Mexico: from Civil War to the War of Independence 1808–1825 Juan Ortiz Escamilla, 6. Central America Timothy Hawkins; 7. War and revolution in the Southern Cone, 1808–1824 Juan Luis Ossa Santa Cruz; 8. Caribbean South America: free people of color, Republican experiments, military strategies, and the Caribbean connection on the path to independence Ernesto Bassi; 9. The southernmost revolution: the Rio de la Plata in early nineteenth century Gabriel di Meglio; 10. Royalists, monarchy, and political transformation in the Spanish Atlantic world during the Age of Revolutions Marcela Echeverri; 11. Africans and their descendants in the Spanish Empire in the Age of Revolutions Jane Landers; 12. Concepts on the move: constitutionalism, citizenship, federalism, and early liberalism across Spain and Spanish America Javier Fernández Sebastián; 13. Patriarchy, misogyny, and politics in the Age of Revolutions Mónica Ricketts; 14. Impact of the French-Caribbean Revolutions in continental Iberian America, 1791–1833 Alejandro E. Gómez; 15. Deferred but not avoided: Great Britain and Latin American independence Karen Racine; Part II. Brazil, Portugal, and Africa: 16. Overview: the independence era in the Luso-Brazilian world Gabriel Paquette; 17. Portugal's social and political change from the Ancien Régime to liberalism Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro; 18. Conservative tracks towards independence: transfer of the court to Rio de Janeiro, the Porto Revolution, Brazilian autonomy Jurandir Malerba; 19. Building new Brazilian institutions Jeffrey D. Needell; 20. Slaves, Indians, and the 'classes of color': popular participation in Brazilian Independence Hendrik Kraay; 21. Brazil and the independence of Spanish America: parallel trajectories, linked processes (1807–1825) João Paulo Pimenta; 22. Waves of sedition across the Atlantic: liberal politics in Angola in the wake of Brazilian independence (ca. 1817–1825) Roquinaldo Ferreira.