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Edge of Empire - Atlantic Networks and Revolution in Bourbon Rio de la Plata (Hardcover)
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Edge of Empire - Atlantic Networks and Revolution in Bourbon Rio de la Plata (Hardcover)
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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.
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