"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...

Critical mass -- Economics lesson for economists and others -- The political economy of world power -- America at home -- America abroad -- New Deal at home and abroad -- USSR : another political economy -- Nazi Germany : the enabler -- Reluctant empire -- Disorder and early sorrow : the sixties...