Uruguay in transnational perspective / [edited by] Pedro Cameselle-Pesce and Debbie Sharnak.

List of figures -- List of maps -- List of contributors -- Foreword / George Reid Andrews -- Introduction: Uruguay in Transnational Focus / Debbie Sharnak and Pedro Cameselle-Pesce -- Trans-imperial dynamics and the making of independent Uruguay: The Portuguese presence in the formation of the Banda Oriental (1716-1810) / Fabrício Prado -- Artigas and the formation of Uruguay: a transnational look / Nicolás Duffau and Ana Frega, translated by Inés Coira -- Rethinking trans-local Black communities in Uruguay across the Southern Cone / Alex Borucki -- British economic expansion and informal empire in Uruguay during the nineteenth century / Peter Winn -- Italians in Montevideo and the conception of a Latin Atlantic, 1915-1920 / John Galante -- Between offside to Orsái: Uruguayan soccer, a (trans)national sport / Soledad Mocchi-Radichi and Rodrigo Viqueira -- Montevideo, Buenos Aires, and the rise of tango in the early 20th century / Daniel Richter -- The global circulation of eugenic ideas through women's gymnastics in mid-twentieth century Uruguay / Paola Dogliotti Moro -- "For peace and freedom:" Paulina Luisi and global anti-fascist Feminism from Uruguay / Katherine M. Marino -- Black anti-fascism: the transnational politics of Nuestra Raza / Vannina Sztainbok -- Panorama Estudiantil: mapping the transnational solidarities and ideologies of Uruguayan university students (1908-1956) / Megan Strom -- Aldo Solari and Vivian Trías: two intellectual drifts in the Cold War / Aldo Marchesi and Vania Markarian -- 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 -- Christian Democratic Parties of Uruguay and Chile in the discussion on the unity of the left (1964-1971) / Jimena Alonso -- An anarchy for the South: third worldism, popular power, and the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, 1956-76 / Troy Araiza Kokinis -- Uruguay and the "Cuban issue," 1959-1964 / Roberto García Ferreira -- Wounds that won't heal: Mujeres case challenges to Uruguay's post-transitional culture of impunity / Mariana Achugar and Gabriela Fried Amilivia.

"Most of the world knows Uruguay only for its soccer team, or its vaunted title as the "Switzerland of South America," an enduring moniker given to the country for its earlier social welfare policies and relative stability. Even many scholarly narratives of Latin America fail to integrate the country into historical accounts, reducing the country to, as one historian has explained, "a periphery within the periphery that is Latin America." This volume fundamentally challenges that characterization, taking one of the most innovative small states in the region and analyzing its transnational influence on the world. Uruguay in Transnational Focus takes a broad look at the country's two-hundred-year history, connecting imperial practices and resistance, Afro-Latin movements, and feminist firebrands, among others to understand how the country and its citizens have influenced and shaped regional and global historical narratives in a way that has thus far been overlooked. With a true collaboration between scholars of the Global North and Global South, the volume is both transnational in its scholarly focus and its production. Its interdisciplinary nature offers a broad range of perspectives from leading scholars in the field to reevaluate Uruguay's impact on the global stage. As a comprehensive and in-depth history of Uruguay, this book is excellent for scholars of the Americas, and particularly for those interested in the narratives of Latin America"-- Provided by publisher.