"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...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Portuguese Town in Río de la Plata -- 2. Departing without Leaving: Luso-Brazilians under the Viceroyalty -- 3. Transimperial Cooperation: Commerce and War in the South Atlantic -- 4. The Making of...

"The Political Economy of Imperial Relations considers the relationship between Britain and Malaya after World War Two in theoretical and historical terms. It develops a new approach to imperialism, situating an understanding of the state in terms of the global economy. This approach challenges...

Beyond empires' explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state. This focus takes readers into a world of cooperative strategies worldwide that emphasises the role played by individuals, rather...