Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Between the Age of Atlantic Revolutions and the Age of Empire - Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette -- 1. Themes and Tensions in a Contradictory Decade: Ibero-America as a Multiplicity of States - Brian Hamnett -- 2. Rafael del Riego and the Spanish Origins of the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Pronunciamiento - Will Fowler -- 3. Include and Rule: The Limits of Liberal Colonial Policy, 1810-1837 - Josep M. Fradera -- 4. Entangled Patriotisms: Italian Liberals and Spanish America in the 1820s - Maurizio Isabella -- 5. The Brazilian Origins of the 1826 Portuguese Constitution - Gabriel Paquette -- 6. An American System: The North American Union and Latin America in the 1820s - Jay Sexton -- 7. The Chilean Irishman Bernardo O'Higgins and the Independence of Peru - Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy -- 8. Corinne in the Andes: European Advice for Women in 1820s Argentina and Chile - Iona Macintyre -- 9. Heretics, Cadavers, and Capitalists: European Foreigners in Venezuela during the 1820s - Reuben Zahler -- 10. Porteño Liberals and Imperialist Emissaries in the Rio de la Plata: Rivadavia and the British - David Rock -- 11. "There Is No Doubt That We Are under Threat by the Negroes of Santo Domingo": The Specter of Haiti in the Spanish Caribbean in the 1820s - Carrie Gibson -- 12. Bartolomé de las Casas and the Slave Trade to Cuba circa 1820 - Christopher Schmidt-Nowara -- 13. The 1820s in Perspective: The Bolivarian Decade - Matthew Brown -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.