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During The Period From 1808 To 1826, The Spanish Empire Was Convulsed By Wars Throughout Its Dominions In Iberia And The Americas. The Conflicts Began In Spain, Where Napoleon's Invasion Triggered A War Of National Resistance. The Collapse Of The Spanish Monarchy Provoked Challenges To The Colonial Regime In Virtually All Of Spain's American Provinces, And Demands For Autonomy And Independence Led To Political Turbulence And Violent Confrontation On A Transcontinental Scale. During The Two Decades After 1808, Spanish America Witnessed Warfare On A Scale Not Seen Since The Conquests Three Centuries Earlier. War And Independence In Spanish America Provides A Unified Account Of War In Spanish America During The Period After The Collapse Of The Spanish Government In 1808. Mcfarlane Traces The Courses And Consequences Of War, Combining A Broad Narrative Of The Development And Distribution Of Armed Conflict With Analysis Of Its Characteristics And Patterns. He Maps The Main Arenas Of War, Traces The Major Campaigns Of Crucial Battles Between Rebels And Royalists, And Places The Military Conflicts In The Context Of International Political Change. Readers Will Come Away With An Understanding Of How War And Military Mobilization Affected Spanish American Societies And Shaped The Emerging Independent States.--page [4] Of Cover. War In The Spanish Empire -- Kingdoms In Crisis -- Paths To War -- Civic Wars And First Republics: New Granada And Venezuela, 1810-12 -- War To The Death In Venezuela And The Dissolution Of Independent New Granada, 1813-15 -- Revolution On The Offensive: The Campaigns Of Buenos Aires, 1810-11 -- Counter-revolution Against The United Provinces, 1811-15 -- Insurrection In Mexico, 1810-11 -- Insurgency And Counter-insurgency In Mexico -- Restoration And Reconquest -- Republic Rearmed: The Birth Of Colombia -- War In The Southern Cone -- Defeat And Retreat In Mexico And Peru -- Bolívar And The Fall Of Royalist Peru. Anthony Mcfarlane. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 425-441) And Index.