Ori Preuss - Transnational South America: Experiences, Ideas, and Identities, 1860s-1900s

At the crossroad of intellectual, diplomatic, and cultural history, this book examines the growing transnational flows of people, information, and ideas between South American citiesmainly the port-capitals of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiroduring the period of their modernization. The book reconstructs this largely overlooked trend toward connectedness both as an objective process and as an assemblage of visions and policies concentrating on diverse transnational practices such as translation, travel, public visits and conferences, the print press, cultural diplomacy, intertextuality, and institutional and personal contacts. Inspired by the entangled history approach and the spatial turn in the humanities, the book highlights the importance of cross-border exchanges within the South American continent. It thus offers a correction to two major traditions in the historiography of ideas and identities in modern Latin America: the predominance of the nation-state as the main unit of analysis, and the concentration on relationships with Europe and the United States as the main axis of cultural exchange. Modernization, it is argued, brought segments of South Americas capital cities not only close to Paris, London, and New York, as is commonly claimed, but also to one another both physically and mentally, creating and recreating spaces, ways of thinking, and cultural-political projects at the national and regional levels.

Ori Preuss is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Tel Aviv University.

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44Transnational South America

Experiences, Ideas, and Identities, 1860s1900s

Ori Preuss

Ori Preuss

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Pursuing this transnational project required me to cross the bridge from Brazil to Argentina. I am deeply grateful to Juan Pablo Scarfi, Paula Bruno, Ricardo Salvatore, Jorge Myers, and Pablo Buchbinder, for assisting me in this challenging and rewarding passage. I am equally thankful to Liliana Gomz-Popescu, Sven Schuster, and Marc Hertzman, who kindly invited me to present portions of this study in meetings at the universities of Dresden, Eichsttt, and Columbia, which greatly enriched my research. Georges Bastin, lvaro Fernndez Bravo, Liliana Brezzo, Noem Goldman, Nayelli Castro Ramrez, Fernando Degiovanni, Juan Manuel Fernndez, Michael Goebel, Beatriz Gonzlez-Stephan, Lorena Moscovich, Luis Roniger, Isis Sadek, David Sheinin, Barbara Weinstein, Thomas Whigham, and James Woodard, shared materials, gave advice, and provided enlightening comments on different occasions along the wayI thank them all, and especially Joo Paulo C. S. Rodrigues who read a semi-final version of the manuscript. At Tel Aviv University, I have been fortunate to work alongside excellent scholars and committed friends. I greatly appreciate the moral support and intellectual insights of Yoav Alon, Lior Ben David, Itamar Even Zohar, Israel Gershoni, Tal Goldfajn, Igal Halfin, Sylvie Honigman, Aviad Kleinberg, Avshalom Laniado, Irad Malkin, Shlomo Sand, Michal Shapira, and Sagi Schaefer. An especially deep debt of gratitude I owe to Gadi Algazi, Gerardo Leibner, Yardena Libovsky, Tzvi Medin, Rosalie Sitman, and the late Boaz Neumann whom I deeply miss. Finally, my gratitude goes to Maria Leal at the Oliveira Lima Library, Mariana Luchetti and the other personnel at the Complejo Museogrfico Enrique Udaondo in Lujn, and the entire exceptionally helpful staff of the Fundaao Casa de Rui Barbosa, as well as to Sharon Hirsch for her painstaking editing of the text, and to Nurit Hershkovits for the resourceful handling of the images.