[This volume] brings together songs, articles, comic strips, scholarly essays, poems, and short stories. [It] covers the Spanish colonial regime; the years of nation building following Argentina's independence from Spain a 1810; and the sweeping progress of economic growth and c…
"Many selections deal with the history of indigenous Argentines, workers, women, blacks, and other groups often ignored in descriptions of the country. At the same time, the book includes excerpts by or about such major political figures as José de San Martín and Juan Perón. Pie…
"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 America" cliché. The A…
"Many selections deal with the history of indigenous Argentines, workers, women, blacks, and other groups often ignored in descriptions of the country. At the same time, the book includes excerpts by or about such major political figures as José de San Martín and Juan Perón. Pie…
"Many selections deal with the history of indigenous Argentines, workers, women, blacks, and other groups often ignored in descriptions of the country. At the same time, the book includes excerpts by or about such major political figures as José de San Martín and Juan Perón. Pie…