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Argentine Democracy : Politics of Institutional Weakness (06 Edition)
by Steven Levitsky  Synopsis This book explores both political and economical developments, examining the links between the (real and apparent) successes of the 1990s and the 2001 collapse. Specific topics include economic policymaking and reform, executive-legislative relations...
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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....
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Argentina
by Colin M. Lewis Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-244) and index....
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The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil (Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas)
by Jens Andermann Publisher Comments The Optic of the State traces the production of nationalist imaginaries through the public visual representation of modern state formation in Brazil and Argentina. As Jens Andermann reveals, the foundational visions of national heritage, territory, and...
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Radical Evil on Trial
by Carlo Santiago Nino Synopsis In this book, Carlos Santiago Nino offers a provocative first-hand analysis of developments in Argentina during the 1980s, when a brutal military dictatorship gave way to a democratic government. Nino played a key role in guiding the transition to...
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And the Money Kept Rolling in (And Out) : Wall Street, the Imf, and the Bankrupting of Argentina (05 Edition)
by Paul Blustein Publisher Comments In the 1990s, few countries were more lionized than Argentina for its efforts to join the club of wealthy nations. Argentina's policies drew enthusiastic applause from the IMF, the World Bank and Wall Street. But the club has a disturbing propensity to...
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Peron and the Enigmas of Argentina
by Robert Crassweller Synopsis 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...
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Recollection of a Provincial Past (05 Edition)
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...
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Argentina Reader : History, Culture, Politics (02 Edition)
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...
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Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires
by Donna J Guy Publisher Comments A study of prostitution necessarily examines questions of power, class, gender, and public health. In Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires these questions combine with particular force. During most of the time covered in this provocative book, from the late...
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Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina (07 Edition)
by Auyero Synopsis Close to three hundred stores and supermarkets were looted during week-long food riots in Argentina in December 2001. Thirty-four people were reported dead and hundreds were injured. Among the looting crowds, activists from the Peronist party (the main...
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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 "This is a book about a hallucinatory form of torture--unique in the annals of repression--that took place in the 1970s in the Mechanics School of the Argentine Navy. . . . a torture chamber that became the most notorious in Latin America's history. . . ....
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Facundo : Civilization and Barbarism (03 Edition)
by Domingo F. Sarmiento Publisher Comments A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published,...
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Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina
by Marina (edt) Sitrin Publisher Comments Chosen by Rebecca Solnit for her andquot;Secret Library of Hope: 12 Books to Stiffen Your Resolveandquot; (Dec. 2007). andldquo;The movements in Argentina have been among the most creative and inspirational in recent years. Marina Sitrinandrsquo;s...
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Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron
by Nicholas Fraser Synopsis In the colorful, tumultuous setting of postwar Argentina, Eva Peron wielded a power--spiritual and practical--that has few parallels outside of hereditary monarchy. In this "fascinating, frightening, straightforward" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) biography...
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Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Eva Peron
by John Barnes Publisher Comments Eva Peron was a star and a legend during her lifetime, one of the most alluring women of the twentieth century. Through the hit Broadway musical Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber, her story became famous, and with the release of the film starring Madonna as...
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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. Lavacais an Argentine editorial and activist collective. Naomi Kleinis an award-winning...
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Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas (Latin American Silhouettes Series)
by John Lynch Lynch Synopsis 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, w...
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