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Buenos Aires : Cultural and Literary Companion (99 Edition) by Jason Wilson Publisher Comments Wilson explores this contradictory and culturally rich city by tracing its development from remote ranching settlement to modern metropolis. Taking landmarks as starting points for a journey of discovery, he looks at the events, people, and writing that... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival by Alicia Partnoy Publisher Comments One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared," Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Smuggled out and published anonymously, The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior : Firsthand Account of Atrocity (05 Edition) by Horacio Verbitsky Publisher Comments Retired navy officer Adolfo Scilingo was the first man ever to break the Argentine military's pact of silence, stunning his compatriots and the world by openly confessing his participation in the hideous practice of pushing live political dissidents out... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Argentina on the Couch: Psychiatry, State, and Society, 1880 to the Present by Mariano Ben Plotkin Publisher Comments A collection of essays that explore the prevalence of psychoanalysis in Argentina. This book traces the way Freud's theories took hold in this South American country and increases our understanding of modern Argentina.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Struggle for an Enlightened Republic: Buenos Aires and Rivadavia by Klaus Gallo Synopsis From 1820 to 1827, the United Provinces of the River Platewhat is now Argentinawere largely dominated by the political influence of Bernardino Rivadavia. This book analyzes the evolution of politics, ideas, and culture in Buenos Aires during those years.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.57 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians: Excursion a Los Indios Ranqueles (Texas Pan American) by Lucio V Mansilla Publisher Comments The encounter between Native American peoples and Europeans and their descendants has marked the history of every nation in the Americas, both North and South. Lucio Mansilla's Una excursion a los indios ranqueles, published in Argentina in 1870, is one... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dignifying Argentina: Peronism, Citizenship, and Mass Consumption (Pitt Latin American Studies) by Eduardo Elena Publisher Comments During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American countries witnessed unprecedented struggles over the terms of national sovereignty, civic participation, and social justice. Nowhere was this more visible than in Peronist Argentina (1946–1955)... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness by Steven Levitsky Publisher Comments During the 1990s Argentina was the only country in Latin America to combine radical economic reform and full democracy. In 2001, however, the country fell into a deep political and economic crisis and was widely seen as a basket case. This book explores... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Argentina Since Independence by Leslie Bethell Publisher Comments 'Brings together seven chapters from Volumes III, V and VIII of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social, and political history of Argentina since independence.'... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Children of Facundo: Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency during the Argentine State-Formation Process (La Rioja, 1853-1870) by Ariel De La Fuente Publisher Comments In Children of Facundo Ariel de la Fuente examines postindependence Argentinian instability and political struggle from the perspective of the rural lower classes. As the first comprehensive regional study to explore nineteenth-century society, culture... (read more) List Price $84.95 Your price: $78.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture by Marguerite Feitlowitz Publisher Comments "We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $16.60 Google eBooks - Electronic
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New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-twentieth-century Argentina (10 Edition) by Matthew B. Karush Publisher Comments In nearly every account of modern Argentine history, the first Peronist regime (1946–55) emerges as the critical juncture. Appealing to growing masses of industrial workers, Juan Perón built a powerful populist movement that transformed... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Peron and the Enigmas of Argentina by Robert Crassweller Publisher Comments The author succeeds admirably in defining and describing the complex phenomenon known as Peronism, as well as the distinctive ethos from which it sprang. He also provides a concise history of Argentina, a biography of Juan Peron (and his comparably... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Recollection of a Provincial Past: Recuerdos de Provincia (Library of Latin America) by Sarmiento Publisher Comments Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and served as President from 1868 to 1874. Of his several autobiographies, the best-known Recollections of a Provincial Past is one... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Argentina Reader: History, Culture and Society (Latin America Readers) by Gabriela Nouzeilles Publisher Comments Excessively European, refreshingly European, not as European as it looks, struggling to overcome a delusion that it is European. Argentina?in all its complexity?has often been obscured by variations of the "like Europe and not like the rest of Latin... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture by Margueri Feitlowitz Publisher Comments "We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Authoritarian Argentina: Nationalist Movement, Its Hist by David Rock Publisher Comments David Rock has written the first comprehensive study of nationalism in Argentina, a fundamentalist movement pledged to violence and a dictatorship that came to a head with the notorious "disappearances" of the 1970s. This radical, right wing movement has... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of Argentina (Brief History Of...) by Jonathan C Brown Publisher Comments Spanning more than 12,000 years of history, A Brief History of Argentina, Second Edition thoroughly and comprehensively explores these issues and discusses how they will affect Argentina's future. Coverage includes: -A comprehensive summary of Argentina... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Children of Facundo-PB by Ariel De La Fuente Publisher Comments In Children of Facundo Ariel de la Fuente examines postindependence Argentinian instability and political struggle from the perspective of the rural lower classes. As the first comprehensive regional study to explore nineteenth-century society, culture... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Trade Paper
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State Building and Political Movements in Argentina, 1860-1916 by David Rock Publisher Comments In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, under the political system known as the oligarchy, Argentina evolved from a dictator-dominated backwater to the leading nation in Latin America. This book examines the formation of a formidable nation-... (read more) Your price: $70.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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