“MONSTROUS AND ILLEGAL PROCEEDINGS”: LAW ...
“MONSTROUS AND ILLEGAL PROCEEDINGS”: LAW ... “MONSTROUS AND ILLEGAL PROCEEDINGS”: LAW ...
were swept up in trans-Atlantic imperial rivalries. The chapter argues that as imperial structures faltered, however, conflicts over what should emerge in their wake produced a vacuum of political authority. Chapter two then explores the emergence of an alternative legal and political order in the borderlands. It focuses particularly on the connections between local law and cross-border trade. Chapter three then explores the growing conflicts between these borderlands legalities and efforts to centralize state authority by Rosas and his blanco ally Manuel Oribe in Uruguay. It concludes with the triumph of borderlands coalitions and the end of a particularly violent era of regional conflict in the early 1850s. Chapter four then focuses more closely on the local operation of these borderlands legalities in a particularly contested zone along the Uruguayan and Brazilian border. It explores how litigation in local fora led to sharpened factional identities that ignited violent conflicts behind borders even as would-be state framers attempted to constitute new nations through constitutions and political “fusions.” Chapter five then expands this discussion by exploring how sharpening local clashes radiated outwards across the borderlands along chains of commercial connections and reciprocal ties. It further explores how resurgent states, particularly under the leadership of men like Bartolomé Mitre in Argentina, utilized these conflicts to begin to bolster national authority in the borderlands. Chapter six examines how these simultaneous conflicts between local factional rivals and between the periphery and newly assertive national cores created spaces for subalterns to exploit elite fissures to assert their own rights in borderlands courts. These various strands of conflict ultimately helped propel the region into the six-year Paraguayan War. Chapter seven then looks at efforts to forge new state pacts in the wake of the Paraguayan conflict. It covers the period in the late 1860s and early 1870s when states began to project their authority into the borderlands more aggressively. It also explores the efforts 22
of borderlands leaders to negotiate new compromises between the core and periphery to preserve some degree of local autonomy. Chapter eight then concludes by examining how even as states seemingly consolidated their authority in the borderlands by extending institutions out to their new national peripheries, local inhabitants proved adept at folding preexisting borderlands legalities into state-centered legal venues. 23
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- Page 3 and 4: ABSTRACT This dissertation explores
- Page 5 and 6: TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT iii ACKN
- Page 7 and 8: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Like the wandering
- Page 9 and 10: Upon returning to the United States
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- Page 13 and 14: Juan Manuel de Rosas and Facundo Qu
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- Page 27 and 28: along rivertine trading corridors.
- Page 29 and 30: strains articulated by men like Art
- Page 31: Bringing the courts back into the s
- Page 35 and 36: Removing the old colonial order, ho
- Page 37 and 38: the city remained a sparsely popula
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- Page 41 and 42: Imperial Collapse and Fragmentation
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- Page 45 and 46: defend its possessions, peninsular
- Page 47 and 48: They requested that the Junta appoi
- Page 49 and 50: manufactured products for the Andea
- Page 51 and 52: The Paraguayan government proposed
- Page 53 and 54: Montevideo in January of 1811, he i
- Page 55 and 56: Ríos. From there, he continued to
- Page 57 and 58: easoning. 25 They had rejected the
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- Page 63 and 64: Artigas’ defeat did not spell the
- Page 65 and 66: economy. By 1822, the powerful merc
- Page 67 and 68: universal laws that would further r
- Page 69 and 70: Pedro abdicated the throne in 1831,
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- Page 73 and 74: operate throughout the borderlands
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- Page 77 and 78: Ríos in particular witnessed a dra
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of borderlands leaders to negotiate new compromises between the core and periphery to<br />
preserve some degree of local autonomy. Chapter eight then concludes by examining how<br />
even as states seemingly consolidated their authority in the borderlands by extending<br />
institutions out to their new national peripheries, local inhabitants proved adept at folding<br />
preexisting borderlands legalities into state-centered legal venues.<br />
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