Region and nation : politics, economics, and society in twentieth-century Argentina

The study of twentieth-century Argentine history is undergoing a radical transformation. Both Argentine and U.S. historians of Argentina are recasting the great debates in the historiography by challenging the Buenos Aires-centered focus of most of the existing historical scholarship and offering a new perspective on the country's modern history. Argentina's supposed 'exceptionalism' is being challenged by these historians. The persistence of political clientilism and oligarchic rule, enclave economies and pre-capitalist social relations, the role of traditional institutions such as the Church and family, intense class conflict and working class militancy, all approximate Argentina closer to the Latin American experience than the previous historiography would suggest. This book is a unique collaboration between Argentine and U.S. historians of this 'other Argentina.' Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Society and Politics: From Social Mobilization to Civic Participation (Santa Fe, 1890–1909)....Pages 1-47 Water, Guns, and Money: The Art of Political Persuasion in Mendoza (1890–1912)....Pages 49-69 Hipólito Yrigoyen, Salta, and the 1928 Presidential Campaign....Pages 71-101 The Organization of Jujuy’s Sugar Ingenios in a Regional Context (1870–1940)....Pages 103-127 Forestry in the Llanos of La Rioja (1900–1960)....Pages 129-149 Catholicism, Culture, and Political Allegiance: Córdoba, 1943–1955....Pages 151-191 Labor in Córdoba in the 1960s: Trade Union Consciousness and the “Culture of Resistance”....Pages 193-225 Back Matter....Pages 227-233