Edge of Empire
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18th century
19th century south america
A01=Fabricio Prado
argentina
argentinian commerce
atlantic trade
Author_Fabricio Prado
banda oriental
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Category=KCLT
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Category=NHTM
cisplatine province
colonia do sacramento
commerce in the south atlantic
don manuel cipriano de melo
economic history of argentina
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eq_history
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luso brazilians
montevideo
portuguese imperialism
rio de la plata
south america
south american history
spanish conquest in south america
transatlantic trade
transimperial trade
uruguay
war in the south atlantic
Product details
- ISBN 9780520285163
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Oct 2015
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires. By focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, the book examines how Montevideo merchant elites used transimperial connections to expand their influence and how their trade offered crucial support to Montevideo's autonomist projects. These transimperial networks offered different political, social, and economic options to local societies and shaped the politics that emerged in the region, including the formation of Uruguay. Connecting South America to the broader Atlantic World, this book provides an excellent case study for examining the significance of cross-border interactions in shaping independence processes and political identities.
Fabricio Prado is an Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary.
