4 ATLASES

History of Argentina in maps

Argentina as it appears in 4 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 1991: Argentina, Río de la Plata. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.

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Map of the industrial world around 1830, showing Argentina — MAP OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD AROUND 1830

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Atack: nineteenth-century US canals, March2017 · Bartholomew: Literary & Historical Atlas of America,1911 · Bartholomew: Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia,1912 · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · University of Oregon: spread of cotton and slavery1790–1860 · Von Steinwehr: distribution of slavery and staple-product districts,1861 · Natural Earth physical geography · Maps of History: industrial geography reconstruction record

Source details

Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University. Shapefile metadata explicitly grants free use; source segment dates and identities retained.. Author metadata grants free use by anyone with source acknowledgement
John George Bartholomew,1911; economic maps and named transport routes. Original cartographer died1920; independent geographic reconstruction.. Public-domain original historical cartography; geographic facts independently reconstructed
John George Bartholomew,1912; economic mapspp40–41,72–73, products54–55; regional railway maps and route gazetteer. Original author died1920. Only geographic facts independently reconstructed; ebook text/brand not republished.. Public-domain original historical cartography; geographic facts independently reconstructed
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, reprojected and corrected by Maps of History as described per layer.. CC BY4.0
University of Oregon Mapping History: dated direction of expansion. Earlier regional footprints remain educational reconstructions, not county statistics.. Geographic historical facts; original animation/artwork not copied
Library of Congress; downloaded four-page historical map includes staple-product inset. Earlier cotton phases are separately sourced.. Historical1861 published map; independent geographic reconstruction
Made with Natural Earth; present coastlines support physical clipping, not historical political boundaries.. Public domain
Named districts and route stations from the linked published atlases. District perimeters are interpretive economic regions, not sovereign borders or parcel-level industrial land use.. Original independent thematic reconstructions; source artwork not embedded

Country fills apply the existing educational industrialisation stages to dated published polities. They do not imply that development was uniform throughout each empire. Economic districts represent thematic regions. Source dates and reconstruction methods are recorded separately.

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Layer records and reconstruction methods

What was Argentina before it was Argentina? The sections below follow this land through every era covered by the Maps of History atlases: who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed. Each line links to the dated map. Modern borders serve as an approximation, as each atlas says on the map itself.

Argentina · Industrial Revolution

Argentina’s grasslands and immigrants helped it prosper by feeding industrial Europe. British capital financed railways, and from the 1880s refrigerated ships took frozen beef to London. Millions of Italian and Spanish migrants worked the farms and ports. On the eve of 1914 Argentina was among the world’s richest countries per head, although it had very little heavy industry of its own.

c. 1750	Colony or dependency — the opening position
c. 1830	Agrarian economy

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Río de la Plata (mod. Argentina) · Age of Revolutions

The Río de la Plata expelled two British invasions in 1806–07 and made its May Revolution in 1810; it was never reconquered. What followed was a long dispute over the country’s future, pitting Buenos Aires against the provinces and unitarians against federalists, through to the Rosas dictatorship. San Martín was its contribution to the age: the crossing of the Andes, three countries freed and the great renunciation at Guayaquil.