Uruguay in Transnational Perspective

Pedro Cameselle-Pesce is an Assistant Professor of History at Western Washington University. He has published several essays on Uruguay-U.S. relations and regional anti-fascist movements. His article, "Italian-Uruguayans for Free Italy: Serafino Romualdi's Quest for Transnational Anti-Fascist Networks during World War II," can be found in The Americas (2020). Debbie Sharnak is Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at Rowan University. Her research focuses on Latin America, human rights, transitional justice, and U.S. foreign policy. Sharnak’s book, Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay, was published in 2023.

Introduction: Uruguay in Transnational Focus

Debbie Sharnak and Pedro Cameselle-Pesce

Part One: From the Banda Oriental to a Republic

1. Trans-Imperial Dynamics and the Making of Independent Uruguay: The Portuguese Presence in the Formation of the Banda Oriental (1716-1810)

Fabrício Prado

2. Artigas and the Formation of Uruguay: A Transnational Look

Nicolás Duffau and Ana Frega, Translated by Inés Coira

3. Rethinking Trans-local Black Communities in Uruguay Across the Southern Cone

Alex Borucki

4. British Economic Expansion and Informal Empire in Uruguay during the Nineteenth Century

Peter Winn

Part Two: Forging Nationality and National Narratives

5. Italians in Montevideo and the Conception of a Latin Atlantic, 1915-1920

John Galante

6. Between Offside to Orsái: Uruguayan Soccer, a (Trans)National Sport

Soledad Mocchi-Radichi and Rodrigo Viqueira

7. Montevideo, Buenos Aires, and the Rise of Tango in the Early 20th Century

Daniel Richter

8. The Global Circulation of Eugenic Ideas Through Women’s Gymnastics in Mid-Twentieth Century Uruguay

Paola Dogliotti Moro

Part Three: Social Movements and Solidarities

9. "For Peace and Freedom:" Paulina Luisi and Global Anti-Fascist Feminism from Uruguay

Katherine M. Marino

10. Black Anti-fascism: The Transnational Politics of Nuestra Raza

Vannina Sztainbok

11. Panorama Estudiantil: Mapping the Transnational Solidarities and Ideologies of Uruguayan University Students (1908-1956)

Megan Strom

Part Four: Exploring Cold War Uruguay Transnationally

12. Aldo Solari and Vivian Trías: Two Intellectual Drifts in the Cold War

Aldo Marchesi and Vania Markarian

13. The secret services of the Soviet Bloc and their allies in Uruguay: The fight against imperialism during the first half of the 1960s

Michal Zourek

14. Christian Democratic Parties of Uruguay and Chile in the discussion on the unity of the left (1964-1971)

Jimena Alonso

15. An Anarchy for The South: Third Worldism, Popular Power, and the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, 1956-76

Troy Araiza Kokinis

16. Uruguay and the "Cuban issue," 1959-1964

Roberto García Ferreira

17. Wounds that won’t heal: Mujeres case challenges to Uruguay’s post-transitional culture of impunity

Mariana Achugar and Gabriela Fried Amilivia