This book provides the first English translation of Argir?polis (1850) by the Argentine Domingo F. Sarmiento, one of the most important political and cultural figures of nineteenth-century Latin America. Argir?polis proposes the union of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay into the United States of South America or the United States of the R?o de la Plata, with a capital on Mart?n Garc?a island. It anticipates some aspects of the continent's...