The Sword of Luchana : : Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879 / / Adrian Shubert.
Born into obscurity in a rural backwater of central Spain in the waning years of the eighteenth century, Baldomero Espartero (1793–1879) led a life resembling that of a character created by Stendhal or Gabriel García Márquez. As a seventy-five-year-old man he was offered – and turned down – the thro...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Iberic
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 From Gránatula to America, February 1793–February 1815
- 2 Defender of the Empire, February 1815–November 1825
- 3 Defender of the Throne, November 1825–September 1836
- 4 Commander in Chief, September 1836–August 1839
- 5 The Reluctant Revolutionary, August 1839–May 1841
- 6 Regent of the Realm, May 1841–July 1843
- 7 Exile and Return, July 1843–July 1854
- 8 “The Personification of Liberty,” July 1854–July 1856
- 9 The Retiree of Logroño, July 1856–September 1868
- 10 “King or President?” September 1868–December 187
- 11 The Necessary Man, January 1871–March 1876
- Epilogue: Death and Afterlife, March 1876–
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Toronto Iberic