Brian R Hamnett

Biographic Data

ID382054
NAMEBrian R Hamnett
GIVEN NAMESBrian R
FAMILY NAMEHamnett
SIGNATUREHAMNETT B R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Essex
ORCID0000-0001-5274-6769
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS60
TOTAL CITATIONS108
AUTHOR COUNT60
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX5

  • The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Enlightenment and the British Colonies

    Open AccessCaroline Winterer, Johnson Kent Wright et al.BOOKCambridge History of the Age of…2023

    Volume I offers an introduction to the Enlightenment, which served as the shared background for virtually all revolutionary turmoil, and the American Revolution, which inaugurated the Age of Revolutions. Beginning with a thorough introduction, the volume covers international rivalry, the importance of slavery, and the reformist mind-set that prevailed on the eve of the revolutionary era. It addresses the traditional argument on whether the Enligh…

  • A Concise History of Mexico

    Open AccessBrian R HamnettBOOKConcise History of Mexico2019

    Mexico's fascinating complexities are difficult to approach. This illustrated Concise History begins with a brief examination of contemporary issues, while the book as a whole - ranging from the Olmecs to the present day - combines a chronological and thematic approach while highlighting long-term issues and controversies. Modern Mexico, founded after independence from Spain in 1821, was created out of a long and disparate historical inheritance …

  • Concise History of Mexico

    Brian R HamnettBOOKConcise History of Mexico2019

  • Libérer le Nouveau Monde: La fondation des premières républiques hispaniques, Colombie et Venezuela (1780-1820)

    Brian R Hamnett, Brian HamnettARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2019

    This major work, intricate and fascinating, complements the author's earlier and equally distinguished work Repúblicas en armas: Los ejércitos bolivarianos en la Guerra de Independencia en Colombia y Venezuela (2003). Both works open new pathways into the history of the northern sector of Spanish South America, known as Tierra Firme. The present work is principally concerned with the process of legitimizing the revolutionary movements in New Gran…

  • Imperial Collapse or Revolution

    Mónica Ricketts, Eduardo Posada-Carbó et al.ARTICLEJournal of Early American History2018

    A book forum featuring The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770–1830 by Brian R. Hamnett. His 2017 volume argues that the origins of Ibero-American Independence must be found in the interplay between the Spanish and Lusitanian monarchies and the American empires ruled by them. It was internal conflict within these empires that led to independence, not revolution, separatist sentiment, or the emergence of American nation-states. Mon…

  • The Reception of Romanticism in Italy and Spain: Parallels and Contrasts

    Brian R Hamnett, Brian HamnettARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2015

    Liberalism arose alongside Romanticism but the two were qualitatively different. Romantic Liberalism in Italy and Spain, with roots in the Enlightenment, looked for the reasons why supposed past liberties had been lost and for methods to regain them. The constitutional issue, however, exposed the differences between the two countries, due principally to continued foreign rule in Italy, lack of political unity and the absence of an accepted common…

  • Concise History of Mexico

    Brian R HamnettBOOKConcise History of Mexico2012

  • Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World: People, Products, and Practices on the Move, ed. Caroline A. Williams

    Brian R HamnettARTICLEThe English Historical Review2012

    Caroline Williams’s Introduction and the ten chapters by scholars from Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and Portugal have transformed the papers of a conference held in Bristol in 2005 into a significant contribution to the historiography of the Atlantic World. The debate concerning the validity of this concept continues—given that it appears to involve the notion of an Age of Revolutions across this political sphere in the period fr…

  • Spain and Portugal and the Loss of their Continental American Territories in the 1820s: An Examination of the Issues

    Open AccessBrian R Hamnett, Brian HamnettARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2011Cited by: 1

    The least studied aspect of Ibero-American Independence is the impact on Spain and Portugal. Many complex issues were involved, including the nature of the economic impact, the degree of political readjustment, and the international position of the former metropoles. The 1820s exposed the contradictions in Iberian responses to the loss of continental American territories. Spanish merchants turned towards the domestic and Caribbean markets, and Po…

  • Roots of Insurgency: Mexican Regions, 1750-1824

    Brian R HamnettBOOKRoots of Insurgency2009

  • Recent Work in Mexican History

    Open AccessBrian R Hamnett, Brian HamnettARTICLEThe Historical Journal2007References: 3

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  • Fictitious Histories: The Dilemma of Fact and Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Historical Novel

    Open AccessBrian R Hamnett, Brian HamnettARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2006

    The article takes up the issue of how fiction and history relate to one another. In many respects, the nineteenth century revealed its uncertainties concerning its place in history through the historical novel. This genre, which emerged in modern form at the beginning of the nineteenth century with Walter Scott, was the meeting point of these two distinct disciplines. Although initially a product of the Enlightenment, the historical novel influen…

  • The Peninsular War: A New History

    Brian R Hamnett, B HamnettARTICLEThe English Historical Review2004

    1University of Essex The Peninsular War: A New History Charles Esdaile London Allen Lane 2002 587 £ 25

  • A Concise History of Mexico

    Richard D Woods, Brian R Hamnett et al.ARTICLEHispania2001

  • The Life and Times of Pancho Villa, Friedrich Katz

    Brian R HamnettARTICLEThe English Historical Review2001

    Journal Article The Life and Times of Pancho Villa, Friedrich Katz Get access Brian R. Hamnett Brian R. Hamnett University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 466, April 2001, Pages 508–509, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.466.508 Published: 01 April 2001

  • Mexican Conservatives, Clericals, and Soldiers: The 'Traitor' Tomás Mejía through Reform and Empire, 1855-1867

    Open AccessBrian R Hamnett, Brian HamnettARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2001Cited by: 1

    General Tomás Mejía (1820-67) became a leading Mexican opponent of the Liberal Reform Movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Originating from the Querétaro Sierra Gorda, where for twenty years he had a strong power base, he took his stand in defence of the Catholic religion. A devotee of the local cult of the Virgin of the Pueblito, Mejía cooperated first with the Conservative Party and subsequently with the Second Mexican Empire (1862-67). Bewe…

  • Spain and the Independence of Colombia, 1810-1825

    Brian R HamnettARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2001

    Rebecca Earle’s central theme is how Spain lost its American territories. Timothy Anna (1983) and Michael P. Costeloe (1986) concentrated on metropolitan Spain’s contribution to this process, through missed political opportunities, miscalculations, or inactivity at the center of decision-making, and a misconceived political economy at a time of changed patterns of trade. Their focus turned discussion away from why the “patriots” won and shifted a…

  • A Concise History of Mexico

    Kenneth Maxwell, Brian R HamnettARTICLEForeign Affairs2000

  • The Independence of Spanish America

    Brian R HamnettARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2000

    This is a revised and updated version of a book published in Spanish in 1996. Non-Hispanic readers will benefit from its close attention to context. The author also includes considerable new material, in particular from the Ecuadorian archives. The book is a succinct summary of the process of independence as seen through its author’s eyes. Although this work refers to some standard accounts in the bibliographical literature, its does not engage d…

  • A Concise History of Mexico

    Open AccessBrian R HamnettBOOKA Concise History of Mexico1999

    Mexico's fascinating complexities are difficult to approach. This illustrated Concise History begins with a brief examination of contemporary issues, while the book as a whole - ranging from the Olmecs to the present day - combines a chronological and thematic approach while highlighting long-term issues and controversies. Modern Mexico, founded after independence from Spain in 1821, was created out of a long and disparate historical inheritance …

  • Process and Pattern: A Re-examination of the Ibero-American Independence Movements, 1808-1826

    Open AccessBrian R HamnettARTICLEJournal of Latin American Studies1997Cited by: 3

    The article attempts to identify the principal processes and patterns, divergences and contrasts that operated during the Independence period in Latin America. These are frequently lost among the detail involved in discussing this period either in monographic or general textual form. The method is to take Spanish and Portuguese America together. Comparison takes place here at a number of levels, not just between Spanish and Portuguese America. Th…

  • The comonfort presidency, 1855?1857

    Open AccessBrian R Hamnett, B HamnettARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research1996References: 4

  • The Comonfort Presidency, 1855-1857

    Open AccessBrian R Hamnett, Brian HamnettARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research1996References: 8

  • Liberalism Divided: Regional Politics and the National Project during the Mexican Restored Republic, 1867-1876

    Brian R HamnettARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1996Cited by: 1

    Brian R. Hamnett, Liberalism Divided: Regional Politics and the National Project during the Mexican Restored Republic, 1867-1876, The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Nov., 1996), pp. 659-689

  • Juarez

    Timothy E Anna, Brian R Hamnett et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1996