Abstract

GERMINARIO, Carolina. The crisis as opportunity. An approximation from the Uprising of the Frees of the South (1838-1841). Folia [online]. 2021, n.42, pp.29-58. ISSN 0325-8238.  http://dx.doi.org/10.30972/fhn.0425731.

This paper approaches the uprising of the of the Libres del Sur (1839) from the crisis of the years 1838-1841. During this period, a series of regional and local economic, financial and political conflicts enabled the configuration of dissidences against the Governor of the Buenos Aires Province, Juan Manuel de Rosas. This work aims to present the causes that characterize these years as critics, and its impact on the rioplatense scale and specifically on a micro scale at the jurisdiction of Dolores and Monsalvo, centers of the uprising which were the causes that allow us to characterize these years as critics and which was it impact in the rioplatense scale and specifically in a micro scale of the jurisdiction of Dolores and Monsalvo, centers of the uprising. From contributions of the political and rural history of the Río de la Plata, we analyze the uprising and examine the social, demographic and economic conditions of the geographic space between mid-18th century and 1839. In addition, we analyze critically primary sources (press, historical essays, and official documents) to provide a complex reading of the crisis from the agents’ voices.

Keywords : Crisis; Rosas; Buenos Aires; Uprising.