Author: Dominguez, Jorge I.
Title: Insurrection or Loyalty. The Breakdown of the Spanish American Empire
Description: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1980. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xi, 307pp. Textual tables. Minor rubbing, VG, in a torn & soiled dustwrapper. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The End of the Empire: Imperial Legitimacy & Stability; Ethnicity; Resistance to Change; The Record of Economic Growth; International War & Government Modernization; Elite Competition; The Impact of the International System; The Coming of Independence: Destroying Political Order; War & Political Mobilization: First Phase...Second Phase; Toward Political Reconstruction; The Problem Revisited.

Keywords: Colonial history, Spanish Empire, Elites, Political sociology, Latin America, Independence, Spain, Royalists, Social Mobilization