Overlapping Geographies of Belonging: Migrations, Regions, and Nations in the Western South Atlantic

In contrast to nationalism and, more recently, globalization and transnationalism, Regionalism remains a relatively unexplored concept by historians. In this essay, Michael Goebel examines the historical construction of the Western South Atlantic region–roughly the area consisting of Brazil and Argentina–from the period from 1870 to 1930, during which intensified global exchange fed into the formation of this area as a historical region.