"In the first decades of the 1800s, 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...

Introduction : the historical location and conceptual framing of Afghanistan -- Financing the Kabul produce -- Contracting nomadic carriage for an aquatic agenda -- Fiscal instability and state revenue reformulation during the first British occupation -- Capital concentrations and coordinations...