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Masculinities: Football, Polo, and the Tango in Argentina (Global Issues)
by Eduardo P Archetti  Publisher Comments The complex relationship between nationalism and masculinity has been explored both historically and sociologically with one consistent conclusion: male concepts of courage and virility are at the core of nationalism. In this ground-breaking book, the...
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That Inferno: Conversations of Five Women Survivors of an Argentine Torture Camp
by Munu Actis Publisher Comments In 1998 in Buenos Aires, five women began a series of conversations about their memories of torture in the ESMA, the School of Naval Mechanics, twenty years before. In 1976 the Armed Forces seized control of Argentina and initiated the National...
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Facundo : Civilization and Barbarism (03 Edition)
by Domingo F. Sarmiento Publisher Comments This is the first complete translation of Domingo F. Sarmiento's Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism, a classic work of Latin American literature....
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Landscapes in Argentinian Photographic Postcards of the 20th Century
by Carlos Masotta Publisher Comments From 1900-1930, the gauchos, or gypsy cowboys, of Argentina produced thousands of documentary photographs of the national landscape as they roamed the plains and settled virgin territories. These images were turned into postcards, which showed the world...
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Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (Ethnography of Political Violence)
by Antonius Robben Publisher Comments For decades, Argentina's population was subject to human rights violations ranging from the merely disruptive to the abominable. Violence pervaded Argentine social and cultural life in the repression of protest crowds, a ruthless counterinsurgency...
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Sin Patron: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories
by Lavaca Collective Publisher Comments The worker-run factories of Argentina offer an inspirational example of a struggle for social change that has achieved a real victory against corporate globalization. Lavaca is an Argentine editorial and activist collective. Naomi Klein is an award...
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Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas (Latin American Silhouettes Series)
by John Lynch Lynch Publisher Comments Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas, is John Lynch's new edition of his 1981 book, shortened for classroom use. The figure of Juan Manual de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina in the first half of the nineteenth century. Charles Darwin...
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Circle of Love Over Death: The Story of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
by Matilde Mellibovsky Publisher Comments Testimonies collected by Matilde Mellibovsky. Translated from Spanish by Maria & Matthew Proser. Many times I've related this painting (Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Child") to the horrors we have lived through in our country; a terrorist state that...
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Recollection of a Provincial Past: Recuerdos de Provincia (Library of Latin America)
by Domingo F 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...
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The Case of the Ugly Suitor & Other Histories of Love, Gender, & Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870 (Engendering Latin America)
by Jeffrey M Shumway Publisher Comments In 1840 Gumerscindo Arroyo hoped to marry Francisca Canicoba, but her father forbade it. Consequently, Francisca took her father to court for permission to marry, where he objected on the grounds that Arroyo was simply too ugly. In the courtrooms of...
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Eva Peron: A Biography
by Alicia Dujovn Ortiz Publisher Comments This bestselling biography of Eva Peron reveals the true story behind Madonna's film portrayal of the fascinating woman known as "Evita". No other female political leader in the twentieth century is surrounded by more mythology and more romantic lore...
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Gauchos in Argentinian Photographic Postcards of the 20th Century
by Carlos Masotta Publisher Comments This charming, gift-worthy 6 x 6-inch paperback presents a wide selection of beautifully tinted photographic postcards of and by Argentine cowboys, or gauchos, in the early 1900s. Often reproduced with stamps, postmarks and handwriting perfectly...
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Eva Peron: The Myths of a Woman
by J M Taylor Publisher Comments Eva Perón, one of the most powerful women in the world at the time of her death in 1952, rose from humble origins to international renown as First Lady of Argentina and the force behind the throne of her husband Juan Perón. Despite her immense...
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The Gaucho Genre: A Treatise on the Motherland
by Josefina Ludmer Publisher Comments Hailed when first published in Spanish in 1988 as one of the best contemporary examples of Latin American critical thought, Josefina Ludmer's El genero gauchesco describes the emergence of gaucho poetry--which uses the voice of the cowboy of the...
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The Real Odessa
by Uki Goni Publisher Comments The paperback edition of "The Real Odessa" includes a revised introduction and conclusion, with a new afterward containing material that Uki Goni has recently researched, focusing on evidence of the Vatican complicity in providing sanctuary for war...
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Order, Family, and Community in Buenos Aires, 1810-1860
by Mark D Szuchman Publisher Comments This is the first study of Latin American history to consider family history in conjunction with the larger issues that conditioned the relationships between the masses and their political rulers. It achieves this objective by describing and analyzing...
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Expedition To the Ranquel Indians
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...
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Authoritarian and the Crisis of Argentine
by William C Smith Publisher Comments This study of Argentina over the past 25 years confronts two questions: Why has Argentina, one of Latin America's wealthiest and most developed nations, failed so tragically to reconcile economic modernization and liberal democracy? Why have...
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For God & Fatherland: Religion & Politics in Argentina
by Michael A Burdick Book News Annotation The author analyzes three critical periods in church-state relations --the anticlerical period of the 1880s, the rise of Peronism in the 1940s, and the upsurge of the revolutionary left in the 1960s--and shows how politics and religion are irrevocably...
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The Argentine Right: Its History and Intellectual Origins, 1910 to the Present (Latin American Silhouettes)
by Sandra Mcge Deutsch Book News Annotation Traces the political right in Argentina from its roots in 19th- century European political theory through the collapse of the conservative government in the 1980s. Describes its growth, its alliance with the Peronists, its years of triumph, and its...
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