Metropole
A national drama, act II : Aranjuez
Bayonne
Dos de Mayo : insurgency
Sevilla : the struggle for supremacy in Spain and new Spain
Colony
A contested authority
New Spain's Cuban counterpoint
The powerful and insecure : Mexico city's almaceneros, 1808
The audiencia de Mexico, iturrigaray and talamantes
Melchor talamantes : criollo exponent of new Spain's interests
Sevilla's comisionados and Mexico city's juntas
Viceroy iturrigaray : criollos and a viceroy's grand design
Anatomy of a colonial coup d'etat : Mexico City, 1808
Metropole
Junta de Sevilla, Consejo de Castilla and the genesis of the junta central
Junta central : ideologues and ideology
Junta central versus junta de Sevilla : the colonial question
Financing the resistance in Spain
Dissolution of the junta central
Regencia and junta de Cadiz
The pivotal orden of May 17, 1810
Colonial insurrection and the call for the cortes
Colony
An eroding colonial system : new Spain, 1808-1810
Fissures in the colonial elite : merchants
Fire under the embers : between pre-emptive coup and insurrection
The regencia's comisionados and bishop-elect abad y Queipo
Oprimidos y opresores
"No hay mas recurso que ir a coger gachupines"
By way of conclusion.