• FrontMatter,
• Contents,
• Frequently Used Abbreviations,
• Acknowledgments,
• Introduction,
• CHAPTER ONE. Economic, Social, and Political Background,
• CHAPTER TWO. Faults, Fissures, and New Lines of Stress (1759-1820),
• CHAPTER THREE. The Liberal Triennium and The 'Ominous Decade" (1820-1832),
• CHAPTER FOUR. Toward the Conflict (1832-1833),
• CHAPTER FIVE. Carlist Insurrection and Government Reaction (October-November 1833),
• CHAPTER SIX. The Insurrection Becomes a Civil War (December 1833-October 1834,
• CHAPTER SEVEN. Winning Control of the North,
• CHAPTER EIGHT. Organizing for War: Government, Recruiting, Supplies, and Finance,
• CHAPTER NINE. Social Classes, Local Liberties, and the Church,
• CHAPTER TEN. Epilogue and Conclusions,
• Bibliography,
• Index,

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.
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