TY - BOOK AU - Ricketts,Mónica TI - Who should rule? Men of Arms, the Republic of Letters, and the Fall of the Spanish Empire SN - 9780190494889 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - BORBONES KW - POLITICA Y GOBIERNO KW - ELITES KW - POLITICA CULTURAL KW - HISTORIA N1 - Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part one imperial reform: contentious consequences, 1760-1808 -- Toward a New Imperial Elite -- Merit and Its Subersive New Roles -- The King's Most Loyal Subjects -- From Men of Letters to Political Actors -- Imperial Turmoil: conflicts old and new, 1805-1830 -- Liberalism and War, 1805-1830 -- Liberalism and War, 1805-1830 -- Abascal and the Problem of Letters in Peru, 1806-1816 -- Pens, Politics, and Swords: A Path to Pervasive Unrest, 1820-1830 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index ER -