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In the first decades of the 1800's, 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.

Rio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) --- Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) --- Economic conditions --- History --- HISTORY / Latin America / South America. --- Rio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.. --- Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) -- History -- 18th century. --- 18th century. --- 19th century south america. --- argentina. --- argentinian commerce. --- atlantic trade. --- banda oriental. --- cisplatine province. --- colonia do sacramento. --- commerce in the south atlantic. --- don manuel cipriano de melo. --- economic history of argentina. --- luso brazilians. --- montevideo. --- portuguese imperialism. --- rio de la plata. --- south america. --- south american history. --- spanish conquest in south america. --- transatlantic trade. --- transimperial trade. --- uruguay. --- war in the south atlantic.