The Rio de la Plata from Colony to Nations: Commerce, Society, and Politics

by Fabrício Prado (Editor), Viviana L. Grieco (Editor), Alex Borucki (Editor)

Overview

This edited volume brings together essays that examine recent scholarship on the history of the Rio de la Plata region (present-day Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil) from the colonial period to the nineteenth century. It illustrates new themes and historical methods that have transformed the historiography of Rio de la Plata, including the use of new sources, digital methodologies and techniques, and innovative approaches to the already well-studied themes of gender, race, commerce, the slave trade, indigenous history, and economic, political, and military history. Contributions privilege trans-national and Atlantic approaches to the Rio de la Plata, emphasizing the inter-connections of processes beyond imperial and national lines, and aiming at uncovering the history of Africans and Amerindians, popular classes, women, urban groups, as well as the partnerships created across the Spanish and Portuguese imperial borders, which also involved other agents from Britain, theNetherlands, and the United States. Furthermore, each chapter offers historiographical introductions covering scholarship produced in the twenty-first century. This book will be an indispensable and unique tool for English speaking students of colonial and nineteenth-century Rio de la Plata and for those with a broader interest in Latin American and Atlantic History.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030603229
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	05/21/2021
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Fabrício Prado is Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary, USA.

Viviana L. Grieco is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.

Alex Borucki is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to Colonial and Nineteenth Century Rio de la Plata.- 2. Between Ethnonyms and Toponyms: Cartography and Native Pasts in the Eastern Rio de la Plata.- 3. Counting Heads: Indigenous Leaders in the Guaraní-Jesuit Missions.- 4. The World Mules Made: Mule Trade in Colonial Rio de la Plata.- 5. “A Ship Richly Laden”: Isaac de Brac, Dutch Merchant on the Rio de la Plata, 1655–1665.- 6. Anglo-Portuguese Cooperation in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic South America.- 7. Trade and Credit on the Ground: Sebastian de Torres’ Regional Credit Networks Across the Rio de la Plata in the Early Nineteenth Century.- 8. African Experiences in the Slave Routes to the Rio de la Plata During the Viceregal Era.- 9. Beyond Blanqueamiento: Córdoba’s Pardocracia and Black Disappearance 1813–1832.- 10. “Long Live the Low People!”: Popular Politics in Revolutionary Buenos Aires, 1810–1820.- 11. From Imperial Agents to Revolutionary Intelligentsia: Catholic Orders and Argentine Independence.- 12. In the Salons of Mariquita Sánchez: Tertulias, Culture, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires and Montevideo.- 13. Freeing Slaves to Fight Against Paraguay: Brazilian Freedmen in the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864–1870.- 14. Facundo Travels to the United States: Mary Mann’s 1868 translation of Sarmiento’s Civilization and Barbarism.- 15. Instability Within: A Microscopic and Often Comical View of "Oligarchic" Politics in Buenos Aires, 1883.