HIS DIPLOMATIC LOOK

Diplomacia de Buenos Aires y los intereses americanos y europeos en el Plata con motivo del reciente Tratado entre España y la República Argentina. Paris. Imprenta Hispano-Americana de Cosson y Comp.a 1864.

Octavo (19.2 x 14.3 cm), 46 pp., includes Title page with the signature of a former owner dated 1949. Copy in good condition, although with foxing; to bind Alberto O. Córdoba, in his Bibliography of Juan Bautista Alberdi includes it with the number 475 noting that it is the first edition.

Argentina was only recognized by Spain on July 9, 1859 with the signing of a Treaty of Peace and Friendship, an agreement that allowed the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. In September 1863 a new treaty was signed, the one that Alberdi analyzes here, based in Europe although already displaced from his diplomatic mission, the one that Urquiza had assigned him, naming him Plenipotentiary Minister in England, France, Spain and Italy. The country was different after the battle of Pavón, when the Buenos Aires troops under the command of General Bartolomé Miter obtained a victory that still arouses intrigues today over the superior forces of the Argentine Confederation commanded by General Justo José de Urquiza. Buenos Aires, separated from the rest of the country until then, led a new institutional unit, which has been preserved to this day. Mitre, victorious, assumed the representation of the National Executive and in 1862 he was elected president of the Nation. Under his management, the new treaty that Alberdi analyzes here was obviously signed, with a critical look at Argentine diplomacy influenced by the government based in Buenos Aires.