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The Rio de la Plata from Colony to Nations

Commerce, Society, and Politics

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Editors:
  1. Fabrício Prado

    1. Department of History, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA

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  2. Viviana L. Grieco

    1. Department of History, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, USA

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  3. Alex Borucki

    1. Department of History, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA

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  • Explores the history and historiography of the Río de la Plata region from the colonial period to the nineteenth century

  • Draws on new sources, innovative methodologies, and interdisciplinary approaches, centering trans-national and Atlantic perspectives

  • Includes summaries of twenty-first century historiography in each chapter

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. An Introduction to Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Rio de la Plata

    • Alex Borucki, Viviana L. Grieco, Fabrício Prado
    Pages 1-7

  3. Between Ethnonyms and Toponyms: Cartography and Native Pasts in the Eastern Rio de la Plata

    • Jeffrey A. Erbig Jr.
    Pages 9-30

  4. Counting Heads: Indigenous Leaders in the Guaraní-Jesuit Missions

    • Julia Sarreal
    Pages 31-52

  5. The World Mules Made: Mule Trade in the Colonial Rio de la Plata

    • Gustavo L. Paz
    Pages 53-76

  6. “A Ship Richly Laden”: Isaac de Brac, Dutch Merchant on the Rio de la Plata, 1655–1665

    • David Freeman
    Pages 77-90

  7. Anglo-Portuguese Cooperation in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic South America

    • Fabrício Prado
    Pages 91-110

  8. Trade and Credit on the Ground: Sebastian de Torres’ Regional Credit Networks Across the Rio de la Plata in the Early Nineteenth Century

    • Viviana L. Grieco
    Pages 111-131

  9. African Experiences in the Slave Routes to the Rio de la Plata During the Viceregal Era

    • Alex Borucki
    Pages 133-154

  10. Beyond Blanqueamiento: Córdoba’s Pardocracia and Black Disappearance 1813–1832

    • Erika Denise Edwards
    Pages 155-176

  11. “Long Live the Low People!”: Popular Politics in Revolutionary Buenos Aires, 1810–1820

    • Gabriel Di Meglio
    Pages 177-200

  12. From Imperial Agents to Revolutionary Intelligentsia: Catholic Orders and Argentine Independence

    • Jorge Troisi Melean
    Pages 201-220

  13. In the Salons of Mariquita Sánchez: Tertulias, Culture, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires and Montevideo

    • Jeffrey M. Shumway
    Pages 221-242

  14. Freeing Slaves to Fight Against Paraguay: Brazilian Freedmen in the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864–1870

    • Vitor Izecksohn
    Pages 243-263

  15. Facundo Travels to the United States: Mary Mann’s 1868 Translation of Sarmiento’s Civilization and Barbarism

    • Carolina Zumaglini
    Pages 265-285

  16. Instability Within: A Microscopic and Often Comical View of “Oligarchic” Politics in Buenos Aires, 1883

    • Brian Bockelman
    Pages 287-307

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 309-342
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA

    Fabrício Prado

  • Department of History, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, USA

    Viviana L. Grieco

  • Department of History, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA

    Alex Borucki

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Rio de la Plata from Colony to Nations

  • Book Subtitle: Commerce, Society, and Politics

  • Editors: Fabrício Prado, Viviana L. Grieco, Alex Borucki

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60323-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60322-9Published: 21 May 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60325-0Published: 22 May 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60323-6Published: 20 May 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 342

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Latin American History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Imperialism and Colonialism

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