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- Crisis in an Atlantic Empire: Spain and New Spain, 1808-1810
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Series: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
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The capstone of a research endeavor begun by Barbara Stein and Stanley Stein nearly sixty years ago, this volume concludes their masterful tetralogy on Spanish economic and Atlantic history.With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in an Atlantic Empire is a finely grained historical tour of the period covering 1808 to 1810, which is often called “the age of revolutions.”The study examines an accumulation of countervailing elements in a spasm of imperial crisis, as Spain and its major colony New Spain struggled to preserve traditional structures of exchange—Spain's transatlantic trade system—with Caribbean ports at Veracruz and Havana in wartime after 1804. Rooted in the struggle between businessmen seeking to expand their economic reach and the ruling class seeking to maintain its hegemonic control, the crisis sheds light on the contest between free trade and monopoly trade and the politics of preservation among an enduring and influential interest group: merchants.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.
Table of Contents
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- Part One: Metropole
- 2. Bayonne
- pp. 45-74
- 3. Dos de Mayo: Insurgency
- pp. 75-93
- Part Two: Colony
- 5. A Contested Authority
- pp. 131-161
- 6. New Spain’s Cuban Counterpoint
- pp. 162-190
- Part Three: Metropole
- 14. Junta Central: Ideologues and Ideology
- pp. 378-402
- 16. Financing the Resistance in Spain
- pp. 430-453
- 17. Dissolution of the Junta Central
- pp. 454-465
- 18. Regencia and Junta de Cadiz
- pp. 466-489
- 19. The Pivotal Orden of 17 May 1810
- pp. 490-528
- Part Four: Colony
- 25. Oprimidos y Opresores
- pp. 631-652
- Conclusion
- pp. 661-664
- Bibliography
- pp. 759-772
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421414256
Related ISBN(s)
9781421414249
MARC Record
OCLC
897815202
Pages
808
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-16
Language
English
Open Access
No