Edge of empire [electronic resource] : Atlantic networks and revolution in Bourbon Rio de la Plata / Fabricio Prado
- Author:
- Prado, Fabrício
- Published:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
- Physical Description:
- xii, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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- Contents:
- Colónia do Sacramento and trans-imperial networks in Rio de la Plata (1680-1777) -- Departing without leaving : the Luso-Brazilians under the Viceroyalty -- Trans-imperial cooperation : commerce and war in the south Atlantic (1778-1810) -- The building of the province of Montevideo : Bourbon reforms, jurisdiction and trans-imperial trade -- Changing toponymy and the emergence of Banda Oriental -- Traversing empires : the Atlantic life of the Portuguese Spaniard D. Cipriano de Melo -- Postponing the revolution : trans-imperial trade and monarchism in Banda Oriental.
- Summary:
- "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"--Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN:
- 9780520285156 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520285158 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520285163 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520285166 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520960732 (electronic)
0520960734 (electronic) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-237) and index.
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