Fighting an Empire for the Good of the Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4054049 |
|---|---|
| Authors | José Brownrigg-Gleeson |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2022 |
| Issue | 143 |
| Pages | 32-49 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-9566076 |
| OpenAlex | W4281652555 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article traces Irish responses to the crisis of the Hispanic monarchy (1808-25) and the struggle for sovereignty in Spanish America, comparing reactions in Ireland to those of the Irish diasporic community in the United States. It argues that although the Irish were overwhelmingly sympathetic to the cause of the insurgents in Spanish America, their support took different forms and meanings. Whereas contemporaries in Ireland saw the benefits of Spanish American independence for the prosperity and security of the British Empire, Irish radical exiles in New York or Philadelphia viewed the struggle as an opportunity to emphasize the validity of revolutionary and republican principles across the New World. In stressing the relevance of the geopolitical context and of transnational interactions to the development of contradicting imperial and anticolonial views, the article moves beyond prevailing narratives of military involvement and highlights the richness of the Irish experience of the Age of Revolutions
Alliance · Ancient history · Economic history · Empire · Geopolitics · Irish · Monarchy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Sociology · Sovereignty · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Irish and British Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law
In the midst of perpetual fetes
Loyalism in Ireland, 1789-1829
Narratives of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Ireland in the World
Ireland in an Imperial World
Ireland and Empire
Common ground
The Tyranny of Printers
In Defense of Civil Society
Patriotism as pastime
Ireland In The Age Of Imperialism And Revolution 1760-1801
Transnational Perspectives on Modern Irish History
United Irishmen, United States
Irish Nationalists in America
Ireland's New Worlds
Ireland and India
Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire
Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750–1850
The Western Question
Amongst Empires
Theater and Nation in Irish Romanticism
The Making of the English Working Class
British Policy and the Independence of Latin America, 1804-1828
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |