Overview
- 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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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, theNetherlands, 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.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Reviews
"This collection encompasses a wide range of topics centered on the Río de la Plata region. ... this edited volume is a fitting tribute to Susan Socolow, mentor of the three editors and other contributors. Socolow created not only well-regarded scholarship (which inspired several of the chapters in this collection) but also connections that brought together historians from South America and the United States and bridged multiple subfields." (Amílcar E. Challú, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 105 (1), February, 2025)
Editors and Affiliations
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.
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