This is a study of the birth of political life and the rise of a political leadership in the River Plate area during the struggle for independence from Spain. Professor Halperin's book is set against the background of economic uncertainty associated with independence: the problems of adapting not only to a more thorough incorporation into the Atlantic economy and the associated economic dependence on Britain, but also to the loss of the mining areas in Upper Peru that had supplied the main export staples and most of the revenue that made possible the growth of a complex administrative and military apparatus there.
- ISBN13 9780521204934
- Publish Date 12 June 1975
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 10 February 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 437
- Language English