A Woman, a Man, a Nation: Mariquita Sánchez, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and the Beginnings of Argentina

353 Pages·2019·13.238 MB·English

by  Jeffrey M. Shumway

A WomAn, A mAn, A nAtion

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Jeffrey M. Shumway
A womAn · A mAn · A nAtion
Mariquita Sánchez, Juan Manuel de Rosas,
and the Beginnings of Argentina
University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque
© 2019 by the University of New Mexico Press
All rights reserved. Published 2019
Printed in the United States of America
isbn 978-0-8263-6089-2 (cloth)
isbn 978-0-8263-6090-8 (paper)
isbn 978-0-8263-6091-5 (electronic)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019945892
Cover illustrAtions:
Portrait of María Sánchez de Mendeville by Jean Maurice Rugendas (1845).
Courtesy of the Museo Histórico Nacional, Buenos Aires.
Portrait of General Juan Manuel de Rosas, circa 1850. Courtesy of the Museo
Histórico Nacional, Buenos Aires.
United Provinces of La Plata, Banda Oriental, Chile, by John Arrowsmith, 1834.
Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
Cover AnD text Design: Mindy Basinger Hill
For my pArents, Eric and Carolyn Shumway

Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgements xiii
introDuCtion Mariquita and Juan Manuel 1
ChApter one Growing Up in the Viceroyalty of Buenos Aires 16
ChApter tWo Marriage 34
ChApter three The English Invasions 50
ChApter Four Buenos Aires in the Age of Revolution 68
ChApter Five The Struggle for Independence 92
ChApter six The Anarchy of 1820 103
ChApter seven Mariquita and the “Happy Experience” of the 1820s 118
ChApter eight The Tumultuous Year of 1829 135
ChApter nine Mariquita and Juan Manuel Part Ways 153
ChApter ten The Rosas Regime under Fire 184
ChApter eleven Mature Exile and Mature Tyranny 211
ChApter tWelve New Beginnings and New Ends 230
epilogue Mariquita and Juan Manuel in Argentine History
and Imagination 253
Glossary 267
Notes 273
Works Cited 307
Index 323