Caudillos de la Argentina

"The Peronist left arose in reaction to attempts to supress the movement. Ironically, its great victory, in forcing the military to accept Perón's return to power, also led to its demise. Legitimated by elections, Perón isolated and attacked his young supporters. A familiar story, but well told and documented"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Este volumen de la Nueva Historia Argentina estudia el proceso abierto por la crisis de la Monarquia espanola y las guerras de independencia en el Rio de la Plata. Revolucion, Republica, Confederacion (1806-1852), proporciona al lector un conocimiento global del periodo, al mismo tiempo que revela una historia conflictiva, en los origenes de la Nacion Argentina, de construccion no solo de las formas de organizacion politica sino tambien de la propia identidad. La Revolucion de Independencia en el Rio de la Plata siguio a la crisis imperial y, al igual que en las demas regiones de...

"An excellent compilation of texts by 31 Argentine political commentators and polemecists from the 1846-80 era. Authors include Mitre, Sarmiento, Alberdi, Echeverría, José Hernández, and Vicente F. López. In his preliminary study, Halperín Donghi notes that only Argentina realized a measure of the material and political progess to which the rest of the continent aspired - and this reflected in no small part the farsightedness of its political thinkers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.