...Chester Lloyd Jones Argentine Meat and the British Market. Chapters in the History of the Argentine Meat Industry . By Hanson Simon G. . ( Stanford University : Stanford University Press, California [c 1938 ]. Pp. vii , 294 . $3.50 .) Copyright 1939 by Duke University Press...

...Eduardo Elena The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies . By Carassai Sebastián . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 357 pp. Paper , $25.95 . Copyright...

... Fernández and other literary friends. The novel, Borges said, would revolve around a fictional Bolshevik plan to gain power by spreading a “general neurosis” among the Argentine people. 1 Borges, of course, never wrote this novel (or, for that matter, any novel at all). He probably could not have...

...Florencia Ferreira De Cassone Avant-garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties . By Giunta Andrea . Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2007 . Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography...

... (Buenos Aires) without giving in to the temptation common in Argentine historiography to dissolve the country’s regional differences in the experience of its national capital. He also succeeds in avoiding both a focus on institutions void of common people, and the assumption that history of discourses...

...John S. Leiby San Martín: Argentine Soldier, American Hero . By Lynch John . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2009 . Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 265 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 At first glance one might...

...Christine Ehrick Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930–1943: Transmitting Nationhood . By Rea Lauren . New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies . Farnham, UK : Ashgate , 2013 . Figures. Bibliography. Index. 191 pp. Cloth, £55.00 . Copyright © 2014...

...Adriana Brodsky While Dr. Nouwen claims that Jews, like other immigrants, “helped to create the new porteño strain of the Argentine national identity while maintaining their ethnic identity” (p. 2), the book's ability to follow through on this assertion is compromised by an unsatisfying...

...David William Foster Transition Cinema: Political Filmmaking and the Argentine Left since 1968 . By Mor Jessica Stites . Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2012 . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xii , 264...

...Raul García Heras The International Monetary Fund and Latin America: The Argentine Puzzle in Context . By Kedar Claudia . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2013 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 251 pp. Cloth , $74.50 . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

... fenómenos. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Icônes littéraires et stéréotypes sociaux: L'image des immigrants galiciens en Argentine (1800–1960) . By Seixas Xosé M. Núñez . Translated by Baudat Anne and Brey Gérard . Historiques . Besançon, France : Presses...

... as the only, precarious institutional link among the provinces. Years would pass before the provinces would agree upon the formation of a national government, and the Argentine Republic would wait still longer. Second, although this meeting took place in the countryside of the province of San Juan...

...Juan Manuel Palacio The Landowners of the Argentine Pampas: A Social and Political History, 1860–1945 . By Hora Roy . Oxford Historical Monographs . New York : Oxford University Press , 2001 . Bibliography. Index . ix , 264 pp. Cloth , $70.00 . Copyright 2002 by Duke...

...Seth Meisel Children of Facundo: Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency during the Argentine State-Formation Process (La Rioja, 1853–1870) . By De La Fuente Ariel . Durham : Duke University Press , 2001 . Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 249 pp. Cloth , $54.95 . Paper...

...Brian Loveman A central question raised by the study is the relative importance of military power (and perceived military capabilities) in determining the outcome of the Argentine-Chilean boundary settlement. By implication, it also poses the question of how to assess the relative weight...

...David Rock Between Revolution and the Ballot Box: The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party in the 1890s . By Alonso Paula . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2000 . Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 242 pp. Cloth , $52.95 . Copyright 2001...

...Margarita Del Olmo Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition . By Auyero Javier . Latin America Otherwise:Languages, Empires, Nations . Durham : Duke University Press , 2003 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Appendix. Notes...

...Matthew B. Karush By compelling audience identification with Sandrini’s character, Chingolo poses a critique of the dominant moral code. Yet the film’s ending imposes a conformist, melodramatic resolution. This ambiguity reflects the conflicting commercial pressures faced by the Argentine film...

...Pablo Vila The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955 . By Chamosa Oscar . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 271 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2012...

...Stephen Sadow Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines? Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora . By Rein Raanan . Boston : Brill , 2010 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii, 286 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 In the introduction to Argentine...