This work explores the background and first two years of the First Carlist War--a conflict that pitted conservative northern peasants against the liberal Madrid government in the largest and most sustained case of armed peasant resistance to modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library use

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Frequently Used Abbreviations, pg. xi*Acknowledgments, pg. xiii*Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER ONE. Economic, Social, and Political Background, pg. 11*CHAPTER TWO. Faults, Fissures, and New Lines of Stress (1759-1820), pg. 29*CHAPTER THREE. The Liberal Triennium and The 'Ominous Decade" (1820-1832), pg. 56*CHAPTER FOUR. Toward the Conflict (1832-1833), pg. 95*CHAPTER FIVE. Carlist Insurrection and Government Reaction (October-November 1833), pg. 120*CHAPTER SIX. The Insurrection Becomes a Civil War (December 1833-October 1834, pg. 166*CHAPTER SEVEN. Winning Control of the North, pg. 205*CHAPTER EIGHT. Organizing for War: Government, Recruiting, Supplies, and Finance, pg. 226*CHAPTER NINE. Social Classes, Local Liberties, and the Church, pg. 257*CHAPTER TEN. Epilogue and Conclusions, pg. 284*Bibliography, pg. 309*Index, pg. 323