... the two dominant parties, the Colorados and the Blancos (later the Nationalists), mirrored the divergent economic interests of the urban (largely Montevidean and Colorado) and rural (primarily the large cattle ranching and Blanco) elements of the country. During the years under study, the Colorado...

... politicians plundered the Montevidean treasury; soldiers went hungry; General Fructuoso Rivera, the untrustworthy military arm of the Montevidean government, was defeated in the field; and French and Italian immigrants, participating in the defense of the city, became disillusioned with the Montevidean...

... to the Montevidean situation, Font Ezcurra claims that France habitually sought imaginary pretexts to intervene in Africa and America in its grasping search for territory and for money. The French blockade of Buenos Aires in 1838 used the pretext of the cases of Bâcle and Lavíe for this purpose. Rosas...

... to the Montevidean upper class), of racial appropriation (never again would “African women” refuse to entertain white people by “dancing nation”), and of sexual appropriation. And if in many cases these “African women” were in fact European men, all the better for the richly comic possibilities created. 80...

... of the south and littoral who were modernizing their operations, and traditional ranchers in the center and north who were interested in land ownership principally as a means of maintaining their positions as political caudillos. Urban, meaning Montevidean, economic power was largely in British and other...

... that varied in the nineteenth century from the 60 percent of the first loan—the Montevidean-European one of 1864-65—to the 68 percent obtained in 1896 to found the Bank of the Republic. Until 1891, the interest charged by the British holders on the nominal value was 6 percent. Just after the arrangement made...