Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay
Editat de Jacob Blanc, Frederico Freitas Cuvânt înainte de Zephyr Franken Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 apr 2018
Big
Waterexplores
four
centuries
of
the
overlapping
histories
of
Brazil,
Argentina,
and
Paraguay
(the
Triple
Frontier),
and
the
colonies
that
preceded
them.
Examining
an
important
area
that
includes
some
of
the
first
national
parks
established
in
Latin
America
and
one
of
the
world’s
largest
hydroelectric
dams,
this
transnational
approach
illustrates
how
these
three
nation-states
have
interacted
over
time.
From the Jesuit reductions in the seventeenth century to the flows of capital and goods accelerated by contemporary trade agreements, the Triple Frontier region has proven fundamental to the development of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay, as well as to the Southern Cone and South America itself. Although historians from each of these three countries have tended to construct narratives that stop at their respective borders, the contributors call for a reinterpretation that goes beyond the material and conceptual boundaries of the Triple Frontier. In offering a transnational approach,Big Waterhelps transcend nation-centered blind spots and approach new understandings of how space and society have developed throughout Latin America.
These essays complicate traditional frontier histories and balance the excessive weight previously given to empires, nations, and territorial expansion. Overcoming stagnant comparisons between national cases, the research explores regional identity beyond border and geopolitical divides. Thus,Big Waterfocuses on the uniquely overlapping character of the Triple Frontier and emphasizes a perspective usually left at the periphery of national histories.
Contributors
Shawn Michael Austin
Jacob Blanc
Bridget María Chesterton
Christine Folch
Zephyr Frank
Frederico Freitas
Michael Kenneth Huner
Evaldo Mendes da Silva
Eunice Sueli Nodari
Graciela Silvestri
Guillermo Wilde
Daryle Williams
From the Jesuit reductions in the seventeenth century to the flows of capital and goods accelerated by contemporary trade agreements, the Triple Frontier region has proven fundamental to the development of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay, as well as to the Southern Cone and South America itself. Although historians from each of these three countries have tended to construct narratives that stop at their respective borders, the contributors call for a reinterpretation that goes beyond the material and conceptual boundaries of the Triple Frontier. In offering a transnational approach,Big Waterhelps transcend nation-centered blind spots and approach new understandings of how space and society have developed throughout Latin America.
These essays complicate traditional frontier histories and balance the excessive weight previously given to empires, nations, and territorial expansion. Overcoming stagnant comparisons between national cases, the research explores regional identity beyond border and geopolitical divides. Thus,Big Waterfocuses on the uniquely overlapping character of the Triple Frontier and emphasizes a perspective usually left at the periphery of national histories.
Contributors
Shawn Michael Austin
Jacob Blanc
Bridget María Chesterton
Christine Folch
Zephyr Frank
Frederico Freitas
Michael Kenneth Huner
Evaldo Mendes da Silva
Eunice Sueli Nodari
Graciela Silvestri
Guillermo Wilde
Daryle Williams
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780816537143
ISBN-10: 0816537143
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 23 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția University of Arizona Press
ISBN-10: 0816537143
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 23 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția University of Arizona Press
Recenzii
“Contains
rigorous
but
easy-to-read
scholarship
that
makes
for
an
excellent
introductory
text
about
the
Triple
Frontier
region.”
–
Julia
Sarreal,American
Historical
Review
“Excellent, and timely, edited collection.”—H-Net Reviews
“Collectively, the essays that make up Big Water show that the insights of borderlands history stand to apply transcontinentally and toward understandings of global interconnectedness.”—Choice
“A seminal, multidisciplinary study of the less understood but ever-so-important corner of South America known as the Triple Frontier.Big Wateranalyzes the many dimensions of the region’s past through sound borderlands, environmental, economic, and social history lenses.”—Sterling Evans, University of Oklahoma
“Excellent, and timely, edited collection.”—H-Net Reviews
“Collectively, the essays that make up Big Water show that the insights of borderlands history stand to apply transcontinentally and toward understandings of global interconnectedness.”—Choice
“A seminal, multidisciplinary study of the less understood but ever-so-important corner of South America known as the Triple Frontier.Big Wateranalyzes the many dimensions of the region’s past through sound borderlands, environmental, economic, and social history lenses.”—Sterling Evans, University of Oklahoma
Notă biografică
Jacob
Blancis
a
lecturer
in
Latin
American
history
at
the
University
of
Edinburgh
in
Scotland.
His
work
has
appeared
in
theJournal
of
Latin
American
Studies,
theJournal
of
Peasant
Studies,
and
theLuso-Brazilian
Review.Frederico
Freitasis
an
assistant
professor
of
Latin
American
and
digital
history
at
North
Carolina
State
University
and
an
investigator
at
the
Visual
Narrative
Initiative.
His
work
has
appeared
inHIb:
Revista
de
Historia
Iberoamericana.
Cuprins
Foreword
Zephyr Frank
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jacob Blanc and Frederico Freitas
PART I. ADAPTATION
1 Embodied Borderland: Colonial Guairá, 1570s–1630s
Shawn Michael Austin
2 Jesuit Missions and the Guarani Ethnogenesis: Political Interactions, Indigenous Actors, and Regional Networks on the Southern Frontier of the Iberian Empires
Guillermo Wilde
PART II. ENVIRONMENT
3 Crossing Borders: Immigration and Transformation of Landscapes in Misiones Province, Argentina, and Southern Brazil
Eunice Sueli Nodari
4 Argentinizing the Border: Conservation and Colonization in the Iguazú National Park, 1890s–1950s
Frederico Freitas
PART III. BELONGING
5 A Devilish Prank, a Dodgy Caudillo, and the Tortured Production of Postcolonial Sovereignty in the Borderlands of López-Era Paraguay
Michael Kenneth Huner
6 Beyond historia pátria: The Jesuit-Guarani Missions, World Heritage, and Other Histories of Cultural Patrimony in Mercosul/Mercosur
Daryle Williams
7 Walking on the Bad Land: The Guarani Indians in the Triple Frontier
Evaldo Mendes da Silva
PART IV. DEVELOPMENT
8 A Turbulent Border: Geopolitics and the Hydroelectric Development of the Paraná River
Jacob Blanc
9 From Porteño to Pontero: The Shifting of Paraguayan Geography and Identity in Asunción in the Early Years of the Stroessner Regime
Bridget María Chesterton
10 Ciudad del Este and the Common Market: A Tale of Two Economic Integrations
Christine Folch
Conclusion: Space, Nation, and Frontiers in the Rioplatense Discourse
Graciela Silvestri
Contributors
Index
Zephyr Frank
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jacob Blanc and Frederico Freitas
PART I. ADAPTATION
1 Embodied Borderland: Colonial Guairá, 1570s–1630s
Shawn Michael Austin
2 Jesuit Missions and the Guarani Ethnogenesis: Political Interactions, Indigenous Actors, and Regional Networks on the Southern Frontier of the Iberian Empires
Guillermo Wilde
PART II. ENVIRONMENT
3 Crossing Borders: Immigration and Transformation of Landscapes in Misiones Province, Argentina, and Southern Brazil
Eunice Sueli Nodari
4 Argentinizing the Border: Conservation and Colonization in the Iguazú National Park, 1890s–1950s
Frederico Freitas
PART III. BELONGING
5 A Devilish Prank, a Dodgy Caudillo, and the Tortured Production of Postcolonial Sovereignty in the Borderlands of López-Era Paraguay
Michael Kenneth Huner
6 Beyond historia pátria: The Jesuit-Guarani Missions, World Heritage, and Other Histories of Cultural Patrimony in Mercosul/Mercosur
Daryle Williams
7 Walking on the Bad Land: The Guarani Indians in the Triple Frontier
Evaldo Mendes da Silva
PART IV. DEVELOPMENT
8 A Turbulent Border: Geopolitics and the Hydroelectric Development of the Paraná River
Jacob Blanc
9 From Porteño to Pontero: The Shifting of Paraguayan Geography and Identity in Asunción in the Early Years of the Stroessner Regime
Bridget María Chesterton
10 Ciudad del Este and the Common Market: A Tale of Two Economic Integrations
Christine Folch
Conclusion: Space, Nation, and Frontiers in the Rioplatense Discourse
Graciela Silvestri
Contributors
Index
Descriere
Big
Waterfocuses
on
the
uniquely
overlapping
character
of
South
America’s
Triple
Frontier.
These
essays
complicate
the
frontiers
and
balance
the
excessive
weight
previously
given
to
empires,
nations,
and
territorial
expansion.Big
Water’s
transdisciplinary
approach
provides
a
new
understanding
of
how
space
and
society
have
developed
throughout
Latin
America.