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This book explores the political ideas, cultural practices and geostrategic actions that gave rise to transatlantic monarchism in Europe and the Americas. During the age of revolutions (1776-1830), a wave of republicanism swept the Atlantic world. Its most apparent achievement was the creation of several republican states in the Americas and the emergence of republican movements in Europe. However, the revolutionary modernity that most republican projects proposed soon confronted the opposition of a revived monarchist creed, whose cultivators elaborated a geopolitical horizon of their own for the Euro-American world. Many intellectuals and policy-makers of the period designed projects to consolidate existing monarchies in Western Europe, the Caribbean and the American continent and restore thrones in the countries of Latin America. To this end, they imagined an alternative modernity in which Europe and the Americas would be linked by the political culture of monarchism, whether in its constitutional or illiberal version.
List of contents
1. Rodrigo Escribano Roca and Rebeca Viñuela Pérez; Introduction - Transatlantic Monarchisms: A Theoretical Approach.- 2. Marcela Ternavasio; Modulations of Monarchical Imaginaries in the South Atlantic During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.- 3. Gabriel Cid; Diplomatic Ambiguity and Political Pragmatism: The Monarchical Alternative in the Post-Independent Chilean Debate (1818-1824).- 4. Friedemann Pestel; The Kingdom of Phoenix: Henry Ist of Haiti and the Atlantic Restoration.- 5. Rebeca Viñuela; Monarchist Projects in Mexico Between the First and Second Empires (1823-1862).- 6. Agustín Sánchez Andrés; In Search of Order and Modernisation: Gabriel García Moreno and the French Protectorate Project (1859-1862).- 7. Silvina Sosa Vota; The Empire Mocks the 'Monarchy': Caricatures of the Paraguayan King in the Brazilian Satirical Press (1864-1870).- 8. Luis Alfonso Escolano; Spies at the Service of the Crown: The Role of Confidential Agents in the Emergence of a New Spanish Imperialism Around the Dominican Republic (1845-1848).- 9. Mirko Suzarte Skarica; The New-France of Antoine de Tounens: Monarchist Pretensions in Araucania (1860-1878).- 10. Edward Shawcross; 'Do not fear the people, they are more conservative than you!': The European Revolutions of 1848, the Mexican Conservative Party and Monarchist Ideas.- 11. Rodrigo Escribano Roca and Mikel Gómez Gastiasoro; Transatlantic Monarchism in Elizabethan Spain (1834-1868).- 12. Alex Middleton; American Thrones and British Monarchism (1820-1870).- 13. James Sanders; The 1860s as a Hinge Period in the Global History of Republicanism, Colonialism and Democracy.
