During the period from 1808 to 1826, the Spanish empire was
convulsed by wars throughout its dominions in Iberia and the
Americas. The conflicts began in Spain, where Napoleon's invasion
triggered a war of national resistance. The collapse of the Spanish
monarchy provoked challenges to the colonial regime in virtually
all of Spain's American provinces, and colonial demands for
autonomy and independence led to political turbulence and violent
confrontation on a transcontinental scale. During the two decades
after 1808, Spanish America witnessed warfare on a scale not seen
since the conquests three centuries earlier. War and Independence
in Spanish America provides a unified account of war in Spanish
America during the period after the collapse of the Spanish
government in 1808. McFarlane traces the courses and consequences
of war, combining a broad narrative of the development and
distribution of armed conflict with analysis of its characteristics
and patterns. He maps the main arenas of war, traces the major
campaigns by and crucial battles between rebels and royalists, and
places the military conflicts in the context of international
political change. Readers will come away with a fully realized
understanding of how war and military mobilization affected Spanish
American societies and shaped the emerging independent states.
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