1. An Introduction to Colonial and Nineteenth Century Rio de la Plata.- 2. Between Ethnonyms and Toponyms: Cartography and Native Pasts in the Eastern Rio de la Plata.- 3. Counting Heads: Indigenous Leaders in the Guaraní-Jesuit Missions.- 4. The World Mules Made: Mule Trade in Colonial Rio de la Plata.- 5. “A Ship Richly Laden”: Isaac de Brac, Dutch Merchant on the Rio de la Plata, 1655–1665.- 6. Anglo-Portuguese Cooperation in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic South America.- 7. Trade and Credit on the Ground: Sebastian de Torres’ Regional Credit Networks Across the Rio de la Plata in the Early Nineteenth Century.- 8. African Experiences in the Slave Routes to the Rio de la Plata During the Viceregal Era.- 9. Beyond Blanqueamiento: Córdoba’s Pardocracia and Black Disappearance 1813–1832.- 10. “Long Live the Low People!”: Popular Politics in Revolutionary Buenos Aires, 1810–1820.- 11. From Imperial Agents to Revolutionary Intelligentsia: Catholic Orders and Argentine Independence.- 12. In the Salons of Mariquita Sánchez: Tertulias, Culture, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires and Montevideo.- 13. Freeing Slaves to Fight Against Paraguay: Brazilian Freedmen in the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864–1870.- 14. Facundo Travels to the United States: Mary Mann’s 1868 translation of Sarmiento’s Civilization and Barbarism.- 15. Instability Within: A Microscopic and Often Comical View of "Oligarchic" Politics in Buenos Aires, 1883.