Rio de la Plata from Colony to Nations

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.

• 1. An Introduction to Colonial and Nineteenth Century Rio de la Plata.- 2. Between Ethnonyms and Toponyms: Cartography and Native Pasts in the Eastern Rio de la Plata.- 3. Counting Heads: Indigenous Leaders in the Guaraní-Jesuit Missions.- 4. The World Mules Made: Mule Trade in Colonial Rio de la Plata.- 5. “A Ship Richly Laden”: Isaac de Brac, Dutch Merchant on the Rio de la Plata, 1655–1665.- 6. Anglo-Portuguese Cooperation in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic South America.- 7. Trade and Credit on the Ground: Sebastian de Torres’ Regional Credit Networks Across the Rio de la Plata in the Early Nineteenth Century.- 8. African Experiences in the Slave Routes to the Rio de la Plata During the Viceregal Era.- 9. Beyond Blanqueamiento: Córdoba’s Pardocracia and Black Disappearance 1813–1832.- 10. “Long Live the Low People!”: Popular Politics in Revolutionary Buenos Aires, 1810–1820.- 11. From Imperial Agents to Revolutionary Intelligentsia: Catholic Orders and Argentine Independence.- 12. In the Salons of Mariquita Sánchez: Tertulias, Culture, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires and Montevideo.- 13. Freeing Slaves to Fight Against Paraguay: Brazilian Freedmen in the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864–1870.- 14. Facundo Travels to the United States: Mary Mann’s 1868 translation of Sarmiento’s Civilization and Barbarism.- 15. Instability Within: A Microscopic and Often Comical View of "Oligarchic" Politics in Buenos Aires, 1883.

"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)