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Facundoby Domingo Faustino Sarmiento; Roberto González Echevarría; Kathleen Ross
University of California Press 2003; US$ 19.95A 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, this foundational text appears here for the first time in its entirety. An educator and writer, Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. His Facundo is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835?1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today?questions regarding the... more...
Jewish White Slave Trade and the Untold Story of Raquel Liebermanby Nora Glickman
Garland Science 2000; US$ 110.00This book recounts the life and career of Raquel Liberman, a Polish Jewish prostitute and victim of the white slave trade, which took women from Eastern Europe to Argentina from the late 1880 to the 1930s. more...
Official History of the Falklands, Vol 1by Sir Lawrence Freedman
Frank Cass 2005; US$ 44.95Covering the origins of the 1982 war, this book describes the long history of the dispute between Argentina and Britain over the sovereignty of the islands, and the difficulties faced by governments in finding a way to reconcile the dispute. more...
Official Hist Falklands, Vol 2by Sir Lawrence Freedman
Frank Cass 2004; US$ 47.95Follows the task force to the South Atlantic, through the battles of early May that saw the loss of the Belgrano and the Sheffield, and on to the landings at San Carlos and the eventual surrender of the Argentine garrison. more...
Enduring Patagoniaby Gregory Crouch
Random House Publishing Group 2002; US$ 11.99Patagonia is a strange and terrifying place, a vast tract of land shared by Argentina and Chile where the violent weather spawned over the southern Pacific charges through the Andes with gale-force winds, roaring clouds, and stinging snow. Squarely athwart the latitudes known to sailors as the roaring forties and furious fifties , Patagonia is a land trapped between angry torrents of sea and sky, a place that has fascinated explorers and writers for centuries. Magellan discovered the strait that bears his name during the first circumnavigation. Charles Darwin traveled Patagonia's windy steppes and explored the fjords of Tierra del Fuego during the voyage of the Beagle. From the novel perspective of the cockpit, Antoine de Saint-Exupry immortalized... more...
Facundoby Domingo Sarmiento; Ilan Stavans
Penguin Group Inc. 1998; US$ 12.99Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. more...
The Fall of Che Guevaraby Henry Butterfield Ryan
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 50.00This work tells the story of Guevara's last campaign, in the backwoods of Bolivia, where he hoped to ignite a revolution that would spread throughout South America. The book details the strategy of the US and Bolivian governments to foil his efforts and shows Guevara as an agent of foreign policy. more...
Argentina: A Global Studies Handbookby Todd L. Edwards
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 55.00This work is a unique exploration of modern Argentina, combining narrative historical chapters with a reference section covering the nation's most important cultural figures, places, and events. more...
Postmemories of Terrorby Susana Kaiser
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00Based on oral histories with sixty-three young people, this book focuses on how young Argentineans remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83). It explores how the post-dictatorship generation was reconstructing this past from three main sources: inter-generational dialogue, education and the communication media. more...
Captive Womenby Susana Rotker; Jennifer French; Jean Franco
University of Minnesota Press 1998; US$ 58.50Argentina is the only country in the Americas that has successfully erased the presence of Indians, Africans, and mestizos from its national story. In Captive Women, Susana Rotker exposes this concerted act of forgetting by looking at a historical phenome more...