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- Title
Puestos fronterizos, guardias, fortines y fuertes de la frontera rioplatense tardocolonial: entre la polisemia y las carencias castrenses.
- Authors
ANDRÉS AGUIRRE, ARNALDO; IRAOLA, EDUARDO
- Abstract
The south frontier of South American converged the indigenous people and the Hispanic-creoles that performed a series of defensive strategies. A variable set of military settlements was extended between Banda Oriental (current República Oriental del Uruguay) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) that were in the same administrative jurisdiction. Even though, these military structures shared the own denominations of the corporation, however the constructive aspects provide evidence of notorious differences. The frontier posts, guards, small forts and forts that were distributed in the jurisdiction implied differences in the military strengths though with more subtlety preserved an important polyphony. The classic historiography tended to study these garrisons in a literal way giving each military structure the characteristics that implied its nomination, while more recent papers problematize these proposals and provided in questioning the materiality of those military typologies by putting in evidence that in numerous opportunities the military strengths neither the artillery arrived, at the same time, the edification only existed in the planes. On one hand, the purpose of the paper is to present a first comparative inquiry towards the military constructive denominations on both sides of Rio de la Plata. On the other hand, we aim to oppose the use of those denominations and the materiality expressed in the documentary collections.
- Subjects
POLYSEMY; SEMANTICS; CREOLES; FORTIFICATION; JURISDICTION (Administrative law)
- Publication
Fronteras de la Historia, 2022, Vol 27, Issue 1, p180
- ISSN
2027-4688
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22380/20274688.1778