Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic
Title | Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2006 |
Authors | Adelman, Jeremy |
Number of Pages | 408 |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
City | Princeton, NJ |
Abstract | This book takes a bold new look at both Spain's and Portugal's New World empires in a trans-Atlantic context. It argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the Atlantic world have been unstable, contested, and equivocal from the start. It shows how much contemporary notions of sovereignty emerged in the Americas as a response to European imperial crises in the age of revolutions. Jeremy Adelman reveals how many modern-day uncertainties about property, citizenship, and human rights were forged in an epic contest over the very nature of state power in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. [Publisher] |
URL | https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400832668/html |
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