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The History of Argentina (Palgrave Essential Histories)
Argentina is a country of enormous potential and challenging problems. In recent decades, violence and military dictatorships have upset the political system, and economic instability has held in check efforts to develop the country's industries. Covering the entire sweep of Argentina's history from pre-Columbian times to 2001, the narrative outlines the connections betwee...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
October 15th 2003
by Palgrave Macmillan
(first published August 30th 2001)
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Not an exciting read by any means but the only decent general history of Argentina that I could find in English or Spanish. It took me a while to plug all the way through but I made it!
The history of Argentina is fascinating: full of big personalities and crazy conflicts. Somehow this book managed to relate it all in a kind of bland reportage, a catalog of the names of presidents, history with no story. Only neurotic compulsion got me to the end.
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