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This research was conducted as part of the projects "La dimension popular de la politica en la Europa Meridional y America Latina, 1789-1889" PID2019-105071GB-I00 and "Privilegio, trabajo y conflictividad. La sociedad moderna de Madrid y su entorno entre el cambio y las resistencias" PGC2018-094150-B-C21. I would like to thank Rodrigo Moreno, Marisa Davio and the anonymous referee for their comments on the first version of this paper.

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September 22, 2021
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Popular royalism in the Spanish Atlantic: war, militias and political participation (1808-1826)

Publicated to:Contemporanea. 24 (3): 381-411 - 2021-07-01 24(3), DOI: 10.1409/101327

Authors: París Martín, Álvaro

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Univ Zaragoza, Dept Hist, 7 San Juan Bosco, Zaragoza 50009, Spain - Author

Abstract

Popular royalism has recently emerged as a growing field of research on both sides of the Atlantic. This paper aims to compare the popular political participation in royalist movements in Peninsular Spain, New Spain, New Granada and Venezuela during the crisis of the Spanish Monarchy and the wars of independence (1808-1826). I argue that popular royalism had a dual origin. On the one hand, it was linked to the "monarchical imaginary" of the Ancien Regime. On the other hand, it was deeply connected to the experience of civil war and the role played by slaves, Indians, artisans, labourers and other commoners in royalist militias and armed groups. The reasons to join the royalist side were not necessarily ideological but related to what these particular groups perceived as their own interests. Thus, popular royalism was a political strategy of pursuing their claims and achieving specific benefits in exchange for military service, such as a reduction of the tribute, the concession of freedom, jurisdictional privileges or a salary.

Keywords

age of revolutionsroyalismAge of revolutionsPopular politicsRoyalism

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Contemporanea, Q3 Agency Scopus (SJR), its regional focus and specialization in History, give it significant recognition in a specific niche of scientific knowledge at an international level.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 5.26. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-04, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 2

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-04:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 3 (PlumX).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (PARIS MARTIN, ALVARO) and Last Author (PARIS MARTIN, ALVARO).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been PARIS MARTIN, ALVARO.