La Nación imperial española. Crisis y recomposición en el mundo atlántico

Abstract

Between 1750 and 1810 a project for a Spanish Nation which took into account the constitutional tradition coming from the Hapsburg negotiated Empire expressed the possibility of a federation of provinces, just when the Napoleonic troops invaded the Iberian Peninsula. The independence of Spanish America therefore was the result of a crisis in the political centre. But it was just one of many possibilities of reorganization after the crisis that began in 1808 and concluded with the battle of Ayacucho in 1824.