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

ISBN-13: 9783030603229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 342 str.

Fabr?cio Prado; Viviana L. Grieco; Alex Borucki

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.