Next Tuesday, May 26 at 6:30 PM, Casa América presents in its Simón Bolívar hall the book The Implosion of the Spanish and Portuguese Monarchies and the Birth of the New Ibero-American Nation-States, by authors Tomás Pérez Vejo and Manuel Andreu Gálvez (coords.). Free entry until full capacity.
The book The Implosion of the Spanish and Portuguese Monarchies and the Birth of the New Ibero-American Nation-States,, the work of about fifteen authors, aims to study the complex process that led to the birth of the new Ibero-American nation-states, both a cause and consequence of the implosion of the Spanish and Portuguese Ancien Régime empires.
It deals with what happened on both sides of the Atlantic, the European and the American, trying to unravel the problems and keys of each of the territorial spaces in which almost twenty of these new and novel forms of political organization were constructed.
It also adds something much less addressed by historiography, studies on counter-revolutionary proposals, a return to the Ancien Régime that, although defeated, would end up having a significant weight in the political evolution of these new nation-states, especially in the Spanish and Portuguese cases.
A few welcoming words will be spoken by Moisés Morera, programming director of Casa de América, and the presentation will include Tomás Pérez Vejo, historian and professor at the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico; Manuel Andreu Gálvez, professor at the University of Extremadura; Manuel Lucena Giraldo, director of the Chair of Spanish and Hispanic Studies of the Universities of the Community of Madrid, and Mirian Galante Becerril, Doctor Professor of Modern History at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).