Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Metropole
  • A national drama, act II : Aranjuez
  • Bayonne
  • Dos de Mayo : insurgency
  • Sevilla : the struggle for supremacy in Spain and new Spain
  • Colony
  • A contested authority
  • New Spain's Cuban counterpoint
  • The powerful and insecure : Mexico city's almaceneros, 1808
  • The audiencia de Mexico, iturrigaray and talamantes
  • Melchor talamantes : criollo exponent of new Spain's interests
  • Sevilla's comisionados and Mexico city's juntas
  • Viceroy iturrigaray : criollos and a viceroy's grand design
  • Anatomy of a colonial coup d'etat : Mexico City, 1808
  • Metropole
  • Junta de Sevilla, Consejo de Castilla and the genesis of the junta central
  • Junta central : ideologues and ideology
  • Junta central versus junta de Sevilla : the colonial question
  • Financing the resistance in Spain
  • Dissolution of the junta central
  • Regencia and junta de Cadiz
  • The pivotal orden of May 17, 1810
  • Colonial insurrection and the call for the cortes
  • Colony
  • An eroding colonial system : new Spain, 1808-1810
  • Fissures in the colonial elite : merchants
  • Fire under the embers : between pre-emptive coup and insurrection
  • The regencia's comisionados and bishop-elect abad y Queipo
  • Oprimidos y opresores
  • "No hay mas recurso que ir a coger gachupines"
  • By way of conclusion.