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Author Adamovsky, Ezequiel, 1971- author.

Title A history of Argentina : from the Spanish conquest to the present / Ezequiel Adamovsky ; translated by Rebecca Wolpin
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2024
©2024

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 348 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Latin America in translation / en traducción / em tradução
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Contents Violence: The Conquest and the Colonial order -- Revolution! The End of the Colonial Order, the Wars of Independence, and a Long Period of Discord (1806-1852) -- The Great Transformation: The Expansion of the State and the Market in Argentina (1852-1912) -- Liberal Argentina and Its Constraints: From Failed Democracy to Peronism -- (1912-1955) -- The Pendulum: Dictatorship, the Market, and Popular Power, from Perón's Overthrow to the National Reorganization Process (1955-1983) -- Democracy Devalued: Between the Promises of Democracy and Neoliberalism, from Alfonsín to Macri (1983-2019) -- Argentine History over the Long Term
Summary "In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities, and other groups that have traditionally been left out of the historical archive. He focuses on harmful aspects of Spanish colonization such as gender subjugation, the violence enacted in the name of the Catholic Church, the role of the economy as it shifted from the encomienda system into modern industrialization, and the devastating effects of slavery, violence, and disease brought to the region by Spanish colonizers. Adamovsky also discusses Argentina's independence and territorial consolidation, the first democratic elections in 1916, military coups, Peronism, democratization and the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s, and many other facets of Argentine life up to the 2019 presidential election. Concise, accessible, and comprehensive, A History of Argentina is an essential guide to this nation"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the Spanish
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 17, 2024)
Subject HISTORY / Latin America / South America.
SUBJECT Argentina -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007036
Form Electronic book
Author Wolpin, Rebecca, translator.
LC no. 2023015589
ISBN 9781478027522
1478027525
Other Titles Historia de la Argentina. English