Argentina’s Partisan Past
Nationalism and the Politics of History
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
Argentina’s Partisan Past is a challenging new study about the production, spread, and use of national history and identity for political purposes in twentieth-century Argentina. Based on extensive study of primary and published sources, it analyzes how nationalist views about what it meant to be Argentine were built into the country’s long protracted crisis of liberal democracy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Eschewing the notion of any straightforward relationship between cultural customs and political practices, the study seeks instead to provide a more nuanced framework for understanding the interplay between politics and narratives about national history. The book is a valuable resource to both students of Argentine history and those interested in the ways in which nationalism has shaped our contemporary world.
Acknowledgements
List of acronyms and abbreviations
Introduction
1. Argentina’s two pantheons: from mitrismo to revisionism
2. Between co-optation and opposition: Peronism, nationalism and the politics of history, 1943–55
3. The deepening polarization: the proscription of Peronism and its politics of history, 1955–66
4. The apogee of revisionism: nationalism, political violence and the politics of history, 1966–76
5. New narratives for a new era? Shifts, decline and resurgence of nationalist constructions of the past since 1976
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
History: Latin American History
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