Some keys of the Revolution in the Rio de la Plata (1810-1820)

The bicentenaries of the Iberian-American independences have provoked a general historiographical review of that period. In this article I take some of the most recent approaches on the issue so as to explain, first, what happened in the 1810s, and then to consider which were the changes that made of that moment a revolution. Finally, I focus in one of the aspects (which I have researched) of the transformation: the appearance, the features and the importance of popular political participation in the city of Buenos Aires.