Region and Nation

Politics, Economy and Society in Twentieth Century Argentina

James Brennan, O. Pianetto

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781349628445
• Print ISBN:
  9780312231446

The study of twentieth-century Argentine history is undergoing a radical transformation. Both Argentine and U.S. historians of Argentina are recasting the great debates in the historiography by challenging the Buenos Aires-centered focus of most of the existing historical scholarship and offering a new perspective on the country's modern history. Argentina's supposed 'exceptionalism' is being challenged by these historians. The persistence of political clientilism and oligarchic rule, enclave economies and pre-capitalist social relations, the role of traditional institutions such as the Church and family, intense class conflict and working class militancy, all approximate Argentina closer to the Latin American experience than the previous historiography would suggest. This book is a unique collaboration between Argentine and U.S. historians of this 'other Argentina.'

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Society and Politics: From Social Mobilization to Civic Participation (Santa Fe, 1890-1909)
• 2. Water, Guns, and Money: The Art of Political Persuasion in Mendoza (1890-1912)
• 3. Hipólito Yrigoyen, Salta, and the 1928 Presidential Campaign
• 4. The Organization of Jujuy's Sugar Ingenios in a Regional Context (1870-1940)
• 5. Forestry in the Llanos ofLa Rioja (1900-1960)
• 6. Catholicism, Culture, and Political Allegiance: Córdoba, 1943-1955
• 7. Labor in Córdoba in the 1960s: Trade Union Consciousness and the "Culture of Resistance"
• Maps
• Index