Monarchical Encounters and Clashes in the Iberian-American Long Nineteenth Century

This book demonstrates how monarchy adjusted to the contours of modernity in remarkably diverse kinds of ways and contexts, preserving a central role in the configuration of the post-revolutionary world. It focuses on three geographically and politically connected frameworks: Spain, Portugal, and the new Latin American countries that emerged from the Iberian colonial territories. It analyses the intense and often conflicting processes and negotiations that characterized the monarchy's adaptation to post-revolutionary modernity and its insertion into a liberal parliamentary and constitutional system. Combining monarchical and post-revolutionary principles was one of the most notable challenges that political regimes faced after 1800. In the Portuguese and Spanish cases, as in others, it was necessary to seek a new place for the crown in constitutional parliamentarism. Liberals managed to do this by uniting king and parliament as elements of national identity and sovereign power respectively. In Latin America, monarchy was seen as a solution to the potential instability of the nascent independent states. In these cases, in addition to crown's adaptation to a constitutional regime, there was also the need to find monarchs and to legitimize them. The cases of Mexico and Brazil were indicative of these challenges and of the difficulties they brought.

Explores how the traditional Spanish and Portuguese monarchies adapted to the new requisites of modernity Provides a comprehensive review of the different monarchical projects in nineteenth-century Latin America Includes in-depth discussions of the transfers of people, ideas and cultural exchanges between both worlds and dynasties

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David San Narciso is Lecturer in Modern History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Isabel Corrêa da Silva is Researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociais of the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

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'This book takes us beyond what Arno Mayer described as the persistence of the Old Regime to paint a fascinating picture of the ways in which the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies adapted, responded to and shaped political culture throughout the Iberian Atlantic during a turbulent nineteenth century.'
Erika Pani, El Colegio de México
This book demonstrates how monarchy adjusted to the contours of modernity in remarkably diverse kinds of ways and contexts, preserving a central role in the configuration of the post-revolutionary world. It focuses on three geographically and politically connected frameworks: Spain, Portugal, and the new Latin American countries that emerged from the Iberian colonial territories. It analyses the intense and often conflicting processes and negotiations that characterized the monarchy's adaptation to post-revolutionary modernity and its insertion into a liberal parliamentary and constitutional system. Combining monarchical and post-revolutionary principles was one of the most notable challenges that political regimes faced after 1800. In the Portuguese and Spanish cases, as in others, it was necessary to seek a new place for the crown in constitutional parliamentarism. Liberals managed to do this by uniting king and parliament as elements of national identity and sovereign power respectively. In Latin America, monarchy was seen as a solution to the potential instability of the nascent independent states. In these cases, in addition to crown's adaptation to a constitutional regime, there was also the need to find monarchs and to legitimize them. The cases of Mexico and Brazil were indicative of these challenges and of the difficulties they brought.
David San Narciso is Lecturer in Modern History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Isabel Corrêa da Silva is Researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociais of the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

Inhalt

1. Global empires, transnational royals, and Ibero-American monarchical transfers in the long nineteenth-century.- Part I. Modernizing the traditional Spanish and Portuguese crowns.- 2. Conceptions of royal power in the Portuguese constitutional monarchy.- 3. The making of the Spanish monarchy's constitutional body: a political battle for liberalism.- 4. Devotions and religious legitimacy in the modern monarchy: a comparison between catholic Portugal and Spain.- 5. Monarchy and parliamentary rituals: state openings, throne speeches, and royal acclamations in Portugal, 18201910.- 6. Regicides in the mass era: killing the past and rethinking the authority in the Iberian Peninsula, 19061908.- Part II. New monarchical experiences in America.- 7. Searching a king for Mexico: independence, monarchy, and diplomacy in a new nation.- 8. Independence, public rituals, and hybrid legitimacies: the two consecration ceremonies of emperor Pedro I of Brazil.- 9. The fight for legitimacy. Monarchy and republic in the public debate of Venezuela and Colombia, 18181821.- 10. The founding of the Brazilian Conservative Party and the concept of Regresso in Brazilian parliamentary debate, 18381840.- 11. Scenes of a monarchy in crisis: debates on republicanism and abolitionism in the last decades of the second reign of Pedro II, 18701891.- Part III. Transatlantic monarchical connections and networks.- 12. Heraldic display of the house of Braganza in the nineteenth century: convergences and divergences between Portugal and Brazil.- 13. Dynastic marriages and transatlantic monarchical transfers: María Isabel de Braganza in the American disputes during the Restoration.- 14. Correspondence of political emigrants in the context of the Miguelist counterrevolution. Portugal, 18281831.- 15. A princess between two worlds: dynastic connections and European perceptions of Brazil through Francisca of Braganza, Princess of Joinville.- 16. The Spanish shadow in the Mexican monarchism of the nineteenth century.- 17. Between republic and monarchy: Pedro II of Brazil and the nineteenth-century political aesthetics of progress.- 18. A princess chosen to 'revive the loyalty of a rebellious colony': the royal tour of Eulalia of Bourbon to Cuba (1893).