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ARBITERS OF CHANGE: PROVINCIAL ELITES AND THE ORIGINS OF FEDERALISM IN ARGENTINA'S LITTORAL, 1814-1820

Early in 1817, in the tiny port of Rosario, a deeply troubled Comandante Tomás Bernai sat down at his desk to pen a confidential private letter to Supreme Director Juan Martin de Pueyrredon, head of the national government based in Buenos Aires. Nearly seven years after the May Revolution agains t Spain, the territory that would later become Argentina found itself buffeted by civil war. Bernal's region, the jurisdiction of the city of Santa Fe, just up the Parana River from Buenos Aires, found itself enmeshed in the bitter conflict between the government in Buenos Aires, the former viceregal capital, and its principal rival, José Gervasio Artigas, leader of a federalist alliance based in ...

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