1. Global empires, transnational royals, and Ibero-American monarchical transfers in the long nineteenth-century.- Part I. Modernizing the traditional Spanish and Portuguese crowns.- 2. Conceptions of royal power in the Portuguese constitutional monarchy.- 3. The making of the Spanish monarchy&s constitutional body: a political battle for liberalism.
- 4. Devotions and religious legitimacy in the modern monarchy: a comparison between catholic Portugal and Spain.- 5. Monarchy and parliamentary rituals: state openings, throne speeches, and royal acclamations in Portugal, 1820&1910.- 6. Regicides in the mass era: killing the past and rethinking the authority in the Iberian Peninsula, 1906&1908.- Part II. New monarchical experiences in America.
- 7. Searching a king for Mexico: independence, monarchy, and diplomacy in a new nation.- 8. Independence, public rituals, and hybrid legitimacies: the two consecration ceremonies of emperor Pedro I of Brazil.- 9. The fight for legitimacy. Monarchy and republic in the public debate of Venezuela and Colombia, 1818&1821.- 10.
The founding of the Brazilian Conservative Party and the concept of Regresso in Brazilian parliamentary debate, 1838&1840.- 11. Scenes of a monarchy in crisis: debates on republicanism and abolitionism in the last decades of the second reign of Pedro II, 1870&1891.- Part III. Transatlantic monarchical connections and networks.- 12. Heraldic display of the house of Braganza in the nineteenth century: convergences and divergences between Portugal and Brazil.- 13.
Dynastic marriages and transatlantic monarchical transfers: María Isabel de Braganza in the American disputes during the Restoration.- 14. Correspondence of political emigrants in the context of the Miguelist counterrevolution. Portugal, 1828&1831.- 15. A princess between two worlds: dynastic connections and European perceptions of Brazil through Francisca of Braganza, Princess of Joinville.- 16. The Spanish shadow in the Mexican monarchism of the nineteenth century.
- 17. Between republic and monarchy: Pedro II of Brazil and the nineteenth-century political aesthetics of progress.- 18. A princess chosen to 'revive the loyalty of a rebellious colony&: the royal tour of Eulalia of Bourbon to Cuba (1893).