Historians of Spanish America tend to ignore mid and late nineteenth-century Spanish politics, since by the 1830s most of the mainland had achieved effective independence. While it is common knowledge that Carlos IV and Ferdinand VII abdicated following Napoleon’s invasion in 1808, Spain’s subsequent civil wars, governments, and constitutional crises generally interest only scholars of Cuba and Puerto Rico. Yet, the pair of new books by José María Portillo Valdés on the Atlantic dimensions of Spain’s crisis in monarchy and governance suggests that there might be reason to continue to look to both sides of the Atlantic beyond 1825. An extended United States sojourn from 2000 to 2004 led Portillo Valdés, a historian of Spanish constitutionalism, to a surprisingly understudied research agenda. He explores the relations between the constitutionalism of the Spanish Cortes of 1810, in which both peninsular Spain and Spanish America were direct participants, and subsequent “federalist” or...
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May 01 2008
Crisis atlántica: Autonomía e independencia en la crisis de la monarquía hispana
El sueño criollo: La formación del doble constitucionalismo en el País Vasco y Navarra
Crisis atlántica: Autonomía e independencia en la crisis de la monarquía hispana
. By Valdés, José María Portillo. Madrid
: Fundación Carolina, Centro de Estudios Hispánicos e Iberoamericanos, Marcial Pons Historia
, 2006
. Notes. Bibliography. Index
. 318
pp. Paper
.El sueño criollo: La formación del doble constitucionalismo en el País Vasco y Navarra
. By Valdés, José María Portillo. San Sebastián
: Editorial Nerea
, 2006
. Notes. Bibliography. Index
. 244
pp. Paper
.Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 304–306.
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Jordana Dym; Crisis atlántica: Autonomía e independencia en la crisis de la monarquía hispana
El sueño criollo: La formación del doble constitucionalismo en el País Vasco y Navarra. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 May 2008; 88 (2): 304–306. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2007-131
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