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This dissertation examines the role of the military within the Isabelline polity, with sustained attention to the colonial sphere and, specifically, to Spain–Cuba relations, through the historical biography of Domingo Dulce y Garay (1808–1869)—a general who played a major role in the Peninsula and twice served as Captain General of Cuba. Biography is advanced here as a methodology to rethink questions such as the construction of legitimacy for military intervention in politics and the militarization of colonial government, in dialogue with metropolitan politics. The case of Dulce enables a transnational reading of hierarchies of power between 1808 and 1869, as well as of authority and the limits of imperial power in everyday practice, always in dispute and negotiation with Antillean elites. From this perspective, the trajectory—at once peninsular and colonial—of a little-studied general serves to revisit entrenched assumptions in both Spanish and Cuban historiographies. The source base combines military records, official government files in Madrid and Havana, private correspondence, speeches, and the press, alongside U.S., French, and Caribbean materials that underscore the study’s transnational character. This plurality of sources makes it possible to confirm the gap between theory and practice in the extraordinary powers of the captains general; to reconstruct how the legitimating discourse of military rebellion functioned as a shield for interests and power logics among political soldiers; and to specify the role of Cuba’s governors in disputes among the island’s competing elites. At the same time, the study shows that praetorianism and militarism do not map onto a linear sequence but rather constitute concurrent modalities of military preeminence within the same political system. In sum, this research demonstrates that applying historical biography to colonial history and to nineteenth-century political history can yield renewed, substantive conclusions about Spain’s history in transnational perspective—not by narrating peninsular and colonial developments in isolation, but by insisting on the need to build a common narrative, for which “two-shore” figures such as Domingo Dulce are especially illuminating. Likewise, the study contends that the analysis of military personalities—far from belonging to an outdated political or military history—remains a fruitful field when approached with contemporary methods and transnational lenses that enrich our understanding of the Isabelline period on both sides of the Atlantic. Such an approach foregrounds not only contests between civil and military power, but also individual inflections, networks of influence woven around specific actors, and the weight of individual decisions in the course of events. Finally, the dissertation’s findings are offered as an invitation to continue reassessing the colonial dimension in Spain’s nineteenth-century history and to underscore the affinity between the “new biography” and the complexity of Hispano-Cuban relations—two fields that, as argued here, cannot be understood apart.","abstract_html":"The reign of Isabella II (1833–1868)—and, more broadly, nineteenth-century Spain—was marked by two interconnected vectors: the prominence of military actors in politics and the process of de-imperialization, set in motion by the mainland American independences and culminating in 1898. Among the possessions that survived 1824, Cuba was the most significant, and its internal dynamics decisively shaped peninsular political and social life. This dissertation examines the role of the military within the Isabelline polity, with sustained attention to the colonial sphere and, specifically, to Spain–Cuba relations, through the historical biography of Domingo Dulce y Garay (1808–1869)—a general who played a major role in the Peninsula and twice served as Captain General of Cuba. Biography is advanced here as a methodology to rethink questions such as the construction of legitimacy for military intervention in politics and the militarization of colonial government, in dialogue with metropolitan politics. The case of Dulce enables a transnational reading of hierarchies of power between 1808 and 1869, as well as of authority and the limits of imperial power in everyday practice, always in dispute and negotiation with Antillean elites. From this perspective, the trajectory—at once peninsular and colonial—of a little-studied general serves to revisit entrenched assumptions in both Spanish and Cuban historiographies. The source base combines military records, official government files in Madrid and Havana, private correspondence, speeches, and the press, alongside U.S., French, and Caribbean materials that underscore the study’s transnational character. This plurality of sources makes it possible to confirm the gap between theory and practice in the extraordinary powers of the captains general; to reconstruct how the legitimating discourse of military rebellion functioned as a shield for interests and power logics among political soldiers; and to specify the role of Cuba’s governors in disputes among the island’s competing elites. At the same time, the study shows that praetorianism and militarism do not map onto a linear sequence but rather constitute concurrent modalities of military preeminence within the same political system. In sum, this research demonstrates that applying historical biography to colonial history and to nineteenth-century political history can yield renewed, substantive conclusions about Spain’s history in transnational perspective—not by narrating peninsular and colonial developments in isolation, but by insisting on the need to build a common narrative, for which “two-shore” figures such as Domingo Dulce are especially illuminating. Likewise, the study contends that the analysis of military personalities—far from belonging to an outdated political or military history—remains a fruitful field when approached with contemporary methods and transnational lenses that enrich our understanding of the Isabelline period on both sides of the Atlantic. Such an approach foregrounds not only contests between civil and military power, but also individual inflections, networks of influence woven around specific actors, and the weight of individual decisions in the course of events. Finally, the dissertation’s findings are offered as an invitation to continue reassessing the colonial dimension in Spain’s nineteenth-century history and to underscore the affinity between the “new biography” and the complexity of Hispano-Cuban relations—two fields that, as argued here, cannot be understood apart.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Zúñiga Crespo, Javier"],"institution":"Universidad de La Rioja (España)","degree_name":null,"degree_level":null,"degree_discipline":null,"degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["Navajas Zubeldia, Carlos (Universidad de La Rioja)"],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2025,"date_issued":"2025","date_published":"2025","updated_at":"2026-07-24T06:27:11Z","subjects":[],"languages":["spa"],"rights":["LICENCIA DE USO: Los documentos a texto completo incluidos en Dialnet son de acceso libre y propiedad de sus autores y/o editores. 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This dissertation examines the role of the military within the Isabelline polity, with sustained attention to the colonial sphere and, specifically, to Spain–Cuba relations, through the historical biography of Domingo Dulce y Garay (1808–1869)—a general who played a major role in the Peninsula and twice served as Captain General of Cuba. Biography is advanced here as a methodology to rethink questions such as the construction of legitimacy for military intervention in politics and the militarization of colonial government, in dialogue with metropolitan politics. The case of Dulce enables a transnational reading of hierarchies of power between 1808 and 1869, as well as of authority and the limits of imperial power in everyday practice, always in dispute and negotiation with Antillean elites. From this perspective, the trajectory—at once peninsular and colonial—of a little-studied general serves to revisit entrenched assumptions in both Spanish and Cuban historiographies. The source base combines military records, official government files in Madrid and Havana, private correspondence, speeches, and the press, alongside U.S., French, and Caribbean materials that underscore the study’s transnational character. This plurality of sources makes it possible to confirm the gap between theory and practice in the extraordinary powers of the captains general; to reconstruct how the legitimating discourse of military rebellion functioned as a shield for interests and power logics among political soldiers; and to specify the role of Cuba’s governors in disputes among the island’s competing elites. At the same time, the study shows that praetorianism and militarism do not map onto a linear sequence but rather constitute concurrent modalities of military preeminence within the same political system. In sum, this research demonstrates that applying historical biography to colonial history and to nineteenth-century political history can yield renewed, substantive conclusions about Spain’s history in transnational perspective—not by narrating peninsular and colonial developments in isolation, but by insisting on the need to build a common narrative, for which “two-shore” figures such as Domingo Dulce are especially illuminating. Likewise, the study contends that the analysis of military personalities—far from belonging to an outdated political or military history—remains a fruitful field when approached with contemporary methods and transnational lenses that enrich our understanding of the Isabelline period on both sides of the Atlantic. Such an approach foregrounds not only contests between civil and military power, but also individual inflections, networks of influence woven around specific actors, and the weight of individual decisions in the course of events. Finally, the dissertation’s findings are offered as an invitation to continue reassessing the colonial dimension in Spain’s nineteenth-century history and to underscore the affinity between the “new biography” and the complexity of Hispano-Cuban relations—two fields that, as argued here, cannot be understood apart.","El reinado de Isabel II (1833–1868) —y, en una perspectiva más amplia, el siglo XIX español— estuvo marcado por dos vectores interconectados: el protagonismo de los militares en la política y el proceso de desimperialización, iniciado con las independencias americanas y culminado en 1898. Entre las posesiones que sobrevivieron a 1824, Cuba fue la más relevante, y sus dinámicas internas influyeron de manera decisiva en la vida política y social peninsular. Esta tesis aborda el papel de los militares en el gobierno isabelino atendiendo al espacio colonial y, en particular, a las relaciones España–Cuba, mediante la biografía histórica de Domingo Dulce y Garay (1808–1869), general con protagonismo destacado en la Península y capitán general de Cuba en dos ocasiones. Se propone la biografía como metodología para redefinir cuestiones como la construcción de la legitimidad de la injerencia militar en política y la militarización de los gobiernos coloniales, en diálogo con la política metropolitana. El caso de Dulce permite articular una lectura transnacional de las jerarquías de poder entre 1808 y 1869, así como de la autoridad y los límites del poder imperial en su práctica cotidiana, siempre en disputa y negociación con las élites antillanas. Desde esta perspectiva, la trayectoria —a un tiempo peninsular y colonial— de un general poco estudiado sirve para revisar y ampliar presupuestos instalados en la historiografía española y cubana. El corpus documental combina documentación militar, fondos oficiales de gobierno en Madrid y La Habana, correspondencia privada, discursos y prensa, junto a materiales estadounidenses, franceses y caribeños, que subrayan el carácter transnacional del estudio. Esta pluralidad de fuentes permite confirmar el desfase entre teoría y práctica en las atribuciones extraordinarias de los capitanes generales; reconstruir cómo el discurso legitimador de la rebelión militar operó como parapeto de intereses y lógicas de poder de los militares políticos; y precisar el papel de los gobernantes de Cuba en las disputas entre las diferentes élites de la isla. Al mismo tiempo, se muestra que pretorianismo y militarismo no responden a una secuencia lineal, sino a modalidades concurrentes de preeminencia castrense dentro del mismo sistema político. En definitiva, esta investigación muestra cómo la aplicación de la biografía histórica sobre la historia colonial y la historia política del siglo XIX puede renovar y aportar novedosas conclusiones sobre la historia de España en su vertiente transnacional, atendiendo no solamente a los sucesos de la península o a los de las colonias de manera aislada, sino precisamente reivindicando la necesidad de construir un relato común, para lo que figuras «a dos aguas» como Domingo Dulce resultan especialmente útiles. Igualmente, se considera que el estudio de personalidades militares, lejos de representar un campo propio de la vieja historia política o militar, sigue siendo un campo prolífico para trabajar a partir de metodologías más novedosas y enfoques transnacionales que sigan enriqueciendo el conocimiento historiográfico del periodo isabelino a ambos lados del Atlántico y reivindiquen el papel que tuvieron este tipo de agentes de formación castrense y desempeño político en la manera en que se articularon las instituciones liberales de la España posrevolucionaria, atendiendo no solo a las disputas entre el poder civil y militar sino a los matices individuales, las redes de influencia tejidas en torno a determinadas personalidades y el peso de las decisiones individuales en el curso de los acontecimientos. Por último, se busca que los resultados finales de esta tesis doctoral sirvan como invitación a seguir revisando el peso de la historia colonial en la historia decimonónica de España y se reivindique la buena sintonía de la nueva historia biográfica con la profundización en la complejidad de las relaciones hispano-cubanas, dos espacios que no se pueden comprender por separado."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Domingo Dulce y Garay (1808-1869). 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This dissertation examines the role of the military within the Isabelline polity, with sustained attention to the colonial sphere and, specifically, to Spain–Cuba relations, through the historical biography of Domingo Dulce y Garay (1808–1869)—a general who played a major role in the Peninsula and twice served as Captain General of Cuba. Biography is advanced here as a methodology to rethink questions such as the construction of legitimacy for military intervention in politics and the militarization of colonial government, in dialogue with metropolitan politics. The case of Dulce enables a transnational reading of hierarchies of power between 1808 and 1869, as well as of authority and the limits of imperial power in everyday practice, always in dispute and negotiation with Antillean elites. From this perspective, the trajectory—at once peninsular and colonial—of a little-studied general serves to revisit entrenched assumptions in both Spanish and Cuban historiographies. The source base combines military records, official government files in Madrid and Havana, private correspondence, speeches, and the press, alongside U.S., French, and Caribbean materials that underscore the study’s transnational character. This plurality of sources makes it possible to confirm the gap between theory and practice in the extraordinary powers of the captains general; to reconstruct how the legitimating discourse of military rebellion functioned as a shield for interests and power logics among political soldiers; and to specify the role of Cuba’s governors in disputes among the island’s competing elites. At the same time, the study shows that praetorianism and militarism do not map onto a linear sequence but rather constitute concurrent modalities of military preeminence within the same political system. In sum, this research demonstrates that applying historical biography to colonial history and to nineteenth-century political history can yield renewed, substantive conclusions about Spain’s history in transnational perspective—not by narrating peninsular and colonial developments in isolation, but by insisting on the need to build a common narrative, for which “two-shore” figures such as Domingo Dulce are especially illuminating. Likewise, the study contends that the analysis of military personalities—far from belonging to an outdated political or military history—remains a fruitful field when approached with contemporary methods and transnational lenses that enrich our understanding of the Isabelline period on both sides of the Atlantic. Such an approach foregrounds not only contests between civil and military power, but also individual inflections, networks of influence woven around specific actors, and the weight of individual decisions in the course of events. Finally, the dissertation’s findings are offered as an invitation to continue reassessing the colonial dimension in Spain’s nineteenth-century history and to underscore the affinity between the “new biography” and the complexity of Hispano-Cuban relations—two fields that, as argued here, cannot be understood apart.","El reinado de Isabel II (1833–1868) —y, en una perspectiva más amplia, el siglo XIX español— estuvo marcado por dos vectores interconectados: el protagonismo de los militares en la política y el proceso de desimperialización, iniciado con las independencias americanas y culminado en 1898. Entre las posesiones que sobrevivieron a 1824, Cuba fue la más relevante, y sus dinámicas internas influyeron de manera decisiva en la vida política y social peninsular. Esta tesis aborda el papel de los militares en el gobierno isabelino atendiendo al espacio colonial y, en particular, a las relaciones España–Cuba, mediante la biografía histórica de Domingo Dulce y Garay (1808–1869), general con protagonismo destacado en la Península y capitán general de Cuba en dos ocasiones. Se propone la biografía como metodología para redefinir cuestiones como la construcción de la legitimidad de la injerencia militar en política y la militarización de los gobiernos coloniales, en diálogo con la política metropolitana. El caso de Dulce permite articular una lectura transnacional de las jerarquías de poder entre 1808 y 1869, así como de la autoridad y los límites del poder imperial en su práctica cotidiana, siempre en disputa y negociación con las élites antillanas. Desde esta perspectiva, la trayectoria —a un tiempo peninsular y colonial— de un general poco estudiado sirve para revisar y ampliar presupuestos instalados en la historiografía española y cubana. El corpus documental combina documentación militar, fondos oficiales de gobierno en Madrid y La Habana, correspondencia privada, discursos y prensa, junto a materiales estadounidenses, franceses y caribeños, que subrayan el carácter transnacional del estudio. Esta pluralidad de fuentes permite confirmar el desfase entre teoría y práctica en las atribuciones extraordinarias de los capitanes generales; reconstruir cómo el discurso legitimador de la rebelión militar operó como parapeto de intereses y lógicas de poder de los militares políticos; y precisar el papel de los gobernantes de Cuba en las disputas entre las diferentes élites de la isla. Al mismo tiempo, se muestra que pretorianismo y militarismo no responden a una secuencia lineal, sino a modalidades concurrentes de preeminencia castrense dentro del mismo sistema político. En definitiva, esta investigación muestra cómo la aplicación de la biografía histórica sobre la historia colonial y la historia política del siglo XIX puede renovar y aportar novedosas conclusiones sobre la historia de España en su vertiente transnacional, atendiendo no solamente a los sucesos de la península o a los de las colonias de manera aislada, sino precisamente reivindicando la necesidad de construir un relato común, para lo que figuras «a dos aguas» como Domingo Dulce resultan especialmente útiles. Igualmente, se considera que el estudio de personalidades militares, lejos de representar un campo propio de la vieja historia política o militar, sigue siendo un campo prolífico para trabajar a partir de metodologías más novedosas y enfoques transnacionales que sigan enriqueciendo el conocimiento historiográfico del periodo isabelino a ambos lados del Atlántico y reivindiquen el papel que tuvieron este tipo de agentes de formación castrense y desempeño político en la manera en que se articularon las instituciones liberales de la España posrevolucionaria, atendiendo no solo a las disputas entre el poder civil y militar sino a los matices individuales, las redes de influencia tejidas en torno a determinadas personalidades y el peso de las decisiones individuales en el curso de los acontecimientos. Por último, se busca que los resultados finales de esta tesis doctoral sirvan como invitación a seguir revisando el peso de la historia colonial en la historia decimonónica de España y se reivindique la buena sintonía de la nueva historia biográfica con la profundización en la complejidad de las relaciones hispano-cubanas, dos espacios que no se pueden comprender por separado."],"dc:format":["application/pdf"],"dc:identifier":["https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaites?codigo=397080"],"dc:language":["spa"],"dc:publisher":["Universidad de La Rioja (España)"],"dc:rights":["LICENCIA DE USO: Los documentos a texto completo incluidos en Dialnet son de acceso libre y propiedad de sus autores y/o editores. Por tanto, cualquier acto de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública y/o transformación total o parcial requiere el consentimiento expreso y escrito de aquéllos. Cualquier enlace al texto completo de estos documentos deberá hacerse a través de la URL oficial de éstos en Dialnet. 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