The Unknown Role of the Catalan Community in Montevideo in the Final Years of the Colony and the Initial Years of the Struggle for Independence

Authors

  • Thomas S. Harrington Trinity College

Keywords:

Catalan migrations, colonial Uruguay, Uruguay

Abstract

This study analyzes the important but until now largely unrecognized role of the Catalan community of Montevideo in the economic social and institutional development of Uruguay during its colonial period (1724-1808) and in the first phase (1808- 1814) of the struggles between American-born Europeans and Peninsular Spaniards for control of the territories bordering the Plata River.

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Issue

No. 17 (2014): Cercles. A Journal of Cultural History 17.

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Temes

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