In 1808, a coup d’état led by the Audiencia and the powerful Consulate for Spanish Trade in the City of Mexico ousted the viceroy. It was set off by the support that the highest authority had been giving to the proposals from the Cabildo, the government of the capital, over the previous months, to call a Junta of towns and cities to represent and govern New Spain following the Bayonne abdications. This episode is well known. The article does not reconstruct events but tries to show an important consequence of the coup: the downfall of the Creole patriotism movement that had been building up throughout the 17th century, and had upheld the right of Mexican Creoles to self-government for two centuries. The thesis is that the traditional Creole...
Francisco Xavier de Lizana and Beaumont was born on December 3, 1750 in Arnedo, the current Autonomo...
This article examines the different ways in which New Spaniards disaffected with the colonial regime...
The author exposes the immediate events that became in the collapse of the Crown of Bourbon and the ...
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The metropolitan crisis that resulted from Bayonne events in May 1808 brought about a politically ra...
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La Revolución de Quito de 1809 no fue un movimiento por la independencia. Lejos de ello, se trató de...
Between 1808 and 1816, that is to say, the time between the adjuration and disloyalty to the King of...
A independência da América Espanhola não constituiu um movimento anticolonial, mas provocou parte da...
While the first conquerors brought to the New World a love of liberty and a spirit of strong autonom...
This article highlights, from among the heap of events that took place between 1808 and 1814, the r...
Abstract: On March 19th, 2012 Spain commemorated the bicentenary of the proclamation of its first Co...
Francisco Xavier de Lizana and Beaumont was born on December 3, 1750 in Arnedo, the current Autonomo...
This article examines the different ways in which New Spaniards disaffected with the colonial regime...
The author exposes the immediate events that became in the collapse of the Crown of Bourbon and the ...
The French invasion of Spain and the collapse of the Spanish Monarchy triggered series of events tha...
The metropolitan crisis that resulted from Bayonne events in May 1808 brought about a politically ra...
[EN] This article deals with the political trajec-tory of an enlightened creole, the lawyer Pedro Vi...
This article focuses on how the concept and practice of representation evolved during the crisis of ...
This article analyzes the particular modulation of the Creole man of letters that Servando Teresa de...
The article deals with a little known topic of the Haitian Revolution: after the conflict between Sp...
La Revolución de Quito de 1809 no fue un movimiento por la independencia. Lejos de ello, se trató de...
Between 1808 and 1816, that is to say, the time between the adjuration and disloyalty to the King of...
A independência da América Espanhola não constituiu um movimento anticolonial, mas provocou parte da...
While the first conquerors brought to the New World a love of liberty and a spirit of strong autonom...
This article highlights, from among the heap of events that took place between 1808 and 1814, the r...
Abstract: On March 19th, 2012 Spain commemorated the bicentenary of the proclamation of its first Co...
Francisco Xavier de Lizana and Beaumont was born on December 3, 1750 in Arnedo, the current Autonomo...
This article examines the different ways in which New Spaniards disaffected with the colonial regime...
The author exposes the immediate events that became in the collapse of the Crown of Bourbon and the ...