Las relaciones exteriores de las Provincias Argentinas como elemento de disputa: el caso de los pronunciamientos de 1840

Abstract

The nineteenth century in Latin America was characterized by the implementation of novel political practices of various characteristics. Among these, the pronouncement stands out, which has been analyzed for some spaces.

In this article we study this action in the River Plate territory in a specific case. There, more than a dozen sovereign Provincial States emerged, after the end of the Spanish Monarchy in the 1810s and the unsuccessful attempts at centralization led by Buenos Aires. These Provinces were organized as a Confederation in 1831, maintaining most of their sovereign powers, except for the international representation that was delegated to Buenos Aires on a provisional basis until the end of the Confederation, in 1852. In this work we analyze a series of diverse pronouncements of these Provincial States, in the year 1840. They sought the reformulation of the political pact within the Confederation.

We maintain two levels of analysis. On the one hand, of the specific characteristics of these episodes, through the identification and characterization of: the individual and collective actors that participated, the dynamics that they implemented, the circulation of information and the actions that they sustained. In addition to this, we address the management of the sovereign dimension of foreign relations, peace and war of the Confederation of Argentine Provinces in the context of the pronouncements. The link between both levels is feasible because we understand that the attribution was configured as the main element in dispute in the political events that we study