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The First Carlist War: Context

, 2014
The defeat of what historians call the Liberal Triennium strengthened Spanish royalism, although not in the way that Don Carlos’s faction demanded. In order to trace how the ‘Carlist’ movement campaigned not just against the vanquished revolucionaries, but also against the Ferdinand’s restored absolutism, we must first explain how the social crisis ...
Mark Lawrence
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The First Carlist War: Origins

, 2014
Ferdinand VII described himself as a cork in a bottle of beer: as soon as that cork was removed, all the troubles of Spain would explode into the open. He is routinely considered the worst of all Spanish monarchs. Timid, mediocre and vindictive, his reign compounded such geopolitical disasters as the Peninsular War and the interconnected loss of Spain ...
Mark Lawrence
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Spain’s First Carlist War, 1833–40

, 2014
Spain's First Carlist War was an unlikely agent of modernity. It pitted town against country, subalterns against elites, and Europe's Liberal powers against Absolute Monarchies.
Lawrence, Mark
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