Flows of sovereignty: a transnational approach to parliaments in the Hispanic world during the age of revolutions

Abstract

This article highlights the role of parliaments in the process of state and nation building in the Hispanic world during the early-nineteenth century. It approaches the convening and institutionalization of parliaments from a transnational perspective. By especially considering the cases of Spain and New Granada/Colombia in the 1810s and 1820s, the article seeks to demonstrate how institution-building accelerated the transformation of the notion of sovereignty in a transnational space that transcended and joined regions, nations, and empires.