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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456917703321

Autore

Goebel Michael

Titolo

Argentina's partisan past [[electronic resource] ] : nationalism and the politics of history / / Michael Goebel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-78138-613-7

1-84631-714-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Liverpool Latin American studies ; ; 11

Disciplina

982.06

Soggetti

Nationalism - Argentina

Electronic books.

Argentina Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; 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 polarisation: 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

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Argentina's Partisan Past is a challenging new study about the production, the spread and the use of understandings of national history and identity for political purposes in twentieth-century Argentina. Based on extensive research of primary and published sources, it analyses how nationalist views about what it meant to be Argentine were built into the country's long drawn-out crisis of liberal democracy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Eschewing the notion of any straightforward relationship between cultural customs, ideas and political practices, the study seeks to provide a more nuanced framew