The Rio de la Plata from Colony to Nations: Commerce, Society, and Politics

1. An Introduction to Colonial and Nineteenth Century Rio de la Plata2. Between Ethnonyms and Toponyms: Cartography and Native Pasts in the Eastern Rio de la Plata3. Counting Heads: Indigenous Leaders in the Guaraní-Jesuit Missions4. The World Mules Made: Mule Trade in Colonial Rio de la Plata5. "A Ship Richly Laden": Isaac de Brac, Dutch Merchant on the Rio de la Plata, 1655-16656. Anglo-Portuguese Cooperation in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic South America7. Trade and Credit on the Ground: Sebastian de Torres' Regional Credit Networks Across the Rio de la Plata in the Early Nineteenth Century8. African Experiences in the Slave Routes to the Rio de la Plata During the Viceregal Era9. Beyond Blanqueamiento: Córdoba's Pardocracia and Black Disappearance 1813-183210. "Long Live the Low People!": Popular Politics in Revolutionary Buenos Aires, 1810-182011. From Imperial Agents to Revolutionary Intelligentsia: Catholic Orders and Argentine Independence12. In the Salons of Mariquita Sánchez: Tertulias, Culture, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires and Montevideo13. Freeing Slaves to Fight Against Paraguay: Brazilian Freedmen in the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-187014. Facundo Travels to the United States: Mary Mann's 1868 translation of Sarmiento's Civilization and Barbarism15. Instability Within: A Microscopic and Often Comical View of "Oligarchic" Politics in Buenos Aires, 1883