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, the Netherlands, 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:	9783030603236
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	05/20/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

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 Plata2. Between Ethnonyms and Toponyms: Cartography and Native Pasts in the Eastern Rio de la Plata3. Counting Heads: Indigenous Leaders in the Guaraní-Jesuit Missions4. The World Mules Made: Mule Trade in Colonial Rio de la Plata5. “A Ship Richly Laden”: Isaac de Brac, Dutch Merchant on the Rio de la Plata, 1655–16656. Anglo-Portuguese Cooperation in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic South America7. Trade and Credit on the Ground: Sebastian de Torres’ Regional Credit Networks Across the Rio de la Plata in the Early Nineteenth Century8. African Experiences in the Slave Routes to the Rio de la Plata During the Viceregal Era9. Beyond Blanqueamiento: Córdoba’s Pardocracia and Black Disappearance 1813–183210. “Long Live the Low People!”: Popular Politics in Revolutionary Buenos Aires, 1810–182011. From Imperial Agents to Revolutionary Intelligentsia: Catholic Orders and Argentine Independence12. In the Salons of Mariquita Sánchez: Tertulias, Culture, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires and Montevideo13. Freeing Slaves to Fight Against Paraguay: Brazilian Freedmen in the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864–187014. Facundo Travels to the United States: Mary Mann’s 1868 translation of Sarmiento’s Civilization and Barbarism15. Instability Within: A Microscopic and Often Comical View of "Oligarchic" Politics in Buenos Aires, 1883