1st Edition
Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina
INTRODUCTION
Recasting the Nation in Twentieth Century Argentina
by Benjamin Bryce and David M.K. Sheinin
CHAPTER ONE
Cultural Pluralism Written in Stone: Ethnic Monuments in the 1910 Argentine Centennial
by Benjamin Bryce
CHAPTER TWO
Modest Pleasures: Shopping and the Formation of the Middle-Class Consumer, 1913-1940
Donna J. Guy
CHAPTER THREE
Questioning the Binary: Two Women’s Tortuous Journeys to the Other Side of the Political Barricades, 1919-1946
Sandra McGee Deutsch
CHAPTER FOUR
The Mines of Trapalanda in Our Souls: Race, Space, and Myth in National Identity
Carolyne L. Ryan
CHAPTER FIVE
"Nuestras Malvinas": Nation and Territory in Argentine Traveler Accounts, 1936-1971
Sebastián Carassai
CHAPTER SIX
Third World Argentina: Seventies Activism, Surveillance, and the Politics of National Comparison
Eduardo Elena
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Year Censorship Broke: Public Criticism and the Cultural Battle for a New Argentina, 1980-1981
David M. K. Sheinin
CHAPTER EIGHT
Sexuality, Citizenship, and Nation in Argentina’s Transition to Democracy
Natalia Milanesio
CHAPTER NINE
The Congreso Pedagógico: Church, State, and Education in Post-Dictatorship Argentina, 1983-1991
Jennifer Adair
EPILOGUE
National Imagination and Periodization in Modern Argentine History
Jorge Nállim
Biography
Benjamin Bryce is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Boundaries of Ethnicity: German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario (2022) and To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society (2018).
David M.K. Sheinin is Professor of History at Trent University and Académico Correspondiente of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina. His most recent book is The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations (2022).
