Guerra, nación y constitución: la proyección europea de la Guerra de Independencia española

Abstract

In the early nineteenth century Europeans looked toward Spain to learn, and reproduce, on the one hand, guerrilla warfare, namely, the fighting strategy that finally put the imperial troops on the defensive; and, on the other hand, political approaches articulated in Cadiz as an alternative to both the established order and the new order proposed by Joseph I. The influence of the Spanish model exceeded the context of the Napoleonic wars and served as inspiration to those who, from positions that could be described as nationalist, faced in the following decades an external threat.