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Forging Catholic National Identities in the Transatlantic Spanish Monarchy, 1808-1814

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  • Eastman, Scott
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By 1810, with the convening of the Cortes of Cádiz, the opening of the public sphere and war threatening to tear apart the monarchy, Spaniards began to forge a new national identity and an inclusive transatlantic nation. The common cultural idiom of religion and the language of national sovereignty provided a unifying symbolic repertoire for Spanish national identities during the transition from the Old Regime to liberal ascendancy. Yet American independence severed the ties of a transatlantic Spanish monarchy and an inclusive national identity as prescribed in the Constitution of 1812. The Virgin of Guadalupe, which had been appropriated by royalists as well as insurgents during the War of Independence in New Spain, soon emerged as the symbolic image of the Mexican nation. Religious imagery that had served to unite Spaniards on both sides of the Atlantic fragmented into regional identifications in the Americas, and Spain itself emerged as a sovereign nation that had broken with the Old Regime. This paper was presented at the conference on The End of the Old Regime in the Iberian World sponsored by the Spanish Studies Program and the Portuguese Studies Program of UC Berkeley on February 8-9, 2008.

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  • Eastman, Scott, 2008. "Forging Catholic National Identities in the Transatlantic Spanish Monarchy, 1808-1814," Institute of European Studies, Working Paper Series qt4xg3v10s, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdl:bineur:qt4xg3v10s
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