"DK Eyewitness Top 10 Buenos Aires" will lead you straight to the very best of this energetic and bustling capital. From the breathtaking Basilica Santisimo Sacramento to the colourful street fairs and famed San Telmo Market; this guide is your perf…
DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Buenos Aires will lead you straight to the very best on offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights, or want to find the best nightspots; this guide is the perfect pocket-sized com…
Argentina Since Independence brings together seven chapters from Volumes III, V and VIII of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social, and political history of Argentina since independence. Each chapter…
"The Rough Guide to Argentina" is the definitive guide to this staggeringly diverse country. This updated fourth edition will effortlessly guide you through the country with in-depth coverage on eating and drinking, accommodation and transportation,…
Following participation in the Arctic search for Sir John Franklin, the mariner and author William Parker Snow (1817-95) volunteered in 1854 to command the schooner Allen Gardiner, named after the man whose work for the South American Missionary Soc…
Close to three hundred stores and supermarkets were looted during week-long food riots in Argentina in December 2001. Thirty-four people were reported dead and hundreds were injured. Among the looting crowds, activists from the Peronist party (the m…
This book analyses the relationship between Peronism and the Argentine working class from the foundation of the Peronist movement in the mid 1940s to the overthrow of Peron's widow in 1976. It presents an account of such crucial issues as the role o…
A guide to the hip, fast-changing city - the home of the tango. Organised by neighbourhood, it also contains a pull-out map.
New for 2007, "Travellers Argentina" is the perfect guidebook for mainstream visitors wanting to access the very best of this geographically and culturally varied country. This book delivers...expert advice, tracking down the best sights and experie…
Founded in 1891, the Union Civica Radical, generally known as the Radical Party, is the oldest national political party in Argentina. As a central component of Argentina's political history, the Radical Party has received much attention from histori…
No more struggling against the wind to fold back the extra large city map you picked up at the tourist office. The unique "Everyman MapGuide" series cleverly combines maps and text in an easy-to-use format, listing the best sights, restaurants and s…
Profiles the geography, history, economy, society, and government of Argentina.
From pre-Columbus to the recent military regimes, this is an accessible survey of Argentina, its development, key events and the causes behind its turbulent history. It focuses on political intrigue, military power and such key figures as Peron and…
Mitt i alla negativa historier om globaliserad exploatering och förtryck reser sig historien om Zanón. Historien om fabriken som vägrade att stänga och om arbetarna som vägrade att gå hem. Rapport från en ockuperad fabrik försöker återställa modet o…
The Time Out Buenos Aires Shortlist includes all the essential visitor information, presented in a way that is designed to take you straight to what you're looking for: reviews of Buenos Aires's classic sights and venues in area-by-area chapters, ma…
Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E. Anderson's Social Capital in Developing Democracies explores the contribution of social capital to the process of democratization and the…
From the highest peaks of the Andes to the remote wilderness of the Tierra del Fuego and the glorious glaciers of Torres del Paine, the 3rd edition of Footprint's Patagonia guide will take you through this land of vast horizons and limitless possibi…
Describes the characteristics, behavior, range, and habitat for more than four hundred species
The guide opens with a beautiful colour section full of inspirational photographs and advice to help you plan your trip giving you a flavour of the best things to see and do. The guide then includes carefully selected itineraries giving you advice o…
"The DK Eyewitness Argentina" travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions the country has to offer. Whether you're salsa dancing in Buenos Aires or seal spotting in Punta Norte, this guide provides all the insider tips every visitor…
"The DK Eyewitness Argentina Travel Guide" will lead you straight to the best attractions Argentina has to offer. The guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans and reconstructions of the country's stunning architecture, plus 3D aerial views of the…
Why did some Latin American labor-based parties adapt successfully to the contemporary challenges of neoliberalism and working class decline while others did not? Drawing on a detailed study of the Argentine Peronism, as well as a broader comparativ…
Seasoned travel writer Wayne Berhardson covers the best sights and adventures that Patagonia has to offer, from visiting Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city, to viewing the jagged peaks of Cuernos del Paine and hiking on Argentina's Moreno Glacie…
The first eighteen years of William Hudson's life were spent on the Argentinean pampas. Although he was a scholarly ornithologist, every page of this book reveals a rapturous delight in the wildlife of the pampas, animal or human. He mixed with cut-…
When England meets Argentina on the football pitch, both nations hold their breath. Author David Downing explores the stormy relationship that the two countries share, against the backdrop of their interwoven histories. The story begins with Britain…
This book authoritatively considers the phenomenon of the severe economic crises of the 1970s and 1980s, as exemplified by the combination of high inflation and negative growth in Israel and Latin America. The author analyses the common characterist…
Under what conditions do political institutions develop that are capable of promoting economic and social elites' accommodation to democracy? The importance of this question for research on regime change and democracy in Latin America lies in two es…
Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river that brings the toxic waste of tanneries and other industries, a hazardous and largely unsupervised waste incinerator, and an unmonitored landfill, Flamma…
Buenos Aires is Argentina’s national capital and largest city. This book describes the development of the city during the period from 1910 to the early 1940s. It focuses on the role of politics and local government in the evolution of the city…
Covers Patagonia, from the peaks of the highest mountains in the Andes, through the beautiful lake district to the glaciated wilderness of Torres de Paine National Park; and from the passionate tango of Buenos Aires to the 'Land of Fire'.
Nobody knows Argentina like Lonely Planet. Whether you want to tango though the night in Buenos Aires, climb glaciers in Patagonia, gallop with gauchos across the Pampas, sample Malbec in Mendoza or savor the world s best steak, our unbeatable 7th e…
The Articulated Peasant presents an overview of Enrique Mayers foundational contribution to an understanding of peasant economies in the Andes from Inca times to the present, stressing the underlying basic elements that define a peasant economy with…
Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river, a hazardous waste incinerator, and an unmonitored landfill, the shantytown Flammable suffers from rampant contamination of its soil, air, and water. In t…
High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil analyzes how high courts and elected leaders in Latin America interacted over neoliberal restructuring, one of the most significant socioeconomic transformations in recent decades. Courts f…
I den här boken beskrivs de strikta uppförandekoder som tillämpas på Milongorna i Buenos Aires. De utgör ramen om den tango som i den typiska abrazon, omfamningen, dansas med större hängivenhet, innerlighet och känsla där än i någon annan tangomiljö…
Andrew Lakoff argues that a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about and acting upon mental disorder is coming to reshape not only the field of psychiatry, but also our very notions of self. Drawing from a comprehensive ethnography of psychiatric…
"Recollections of a Provincial Past" is the best known of several autobiographies by 19th century Argentinean, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Local history books describe him as the second of three founding presidents of the Argentine nation. He remain…
'When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with a gay wave of your hand'. Gerald Durrell and his…
From the rocky terrain in the North through the fertile pampa of the central provinces, all the way to the mountainous West and cold, desolate provinces of the South, the estancias of Argentina produced the high-quality meat and grain that gave the…
Buenos Aires is Argentina’s wealthiest, largest, and most populous province, and has long been the key prize in all major electoral struggles, has received little scholarly attention. This first account of its political history between 1912 an…
Det finns länder som är rika och länder som är fattiga. Och det finns fattiga länder som håller på att bli rika. Och sedan finns Argentina Läs Mauricio Rojas berättelse om hur välståndslandet Argentina omvandlades till avgrundslandet Argentina. Sj…
This book tells the story of Sur, Argentina's foremost literary and cultural journal of the twentieth century. Victoria Ocampo (its founder and lifelong editor) and Jorge Luis Borges (a regular and influential contributor) feature prominently in the…
This is a scholarly and stimulating study of settlement and expansions on the frontier lands in Canada and Argentina during their 'Golden Years' of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jeremy Adelman challenges many of the assumptions…
Economic volatility has come into its own after being treated for decades as a secondary phenomenon in the business cycle literature. This evolution has been driven by the recognition that non-linearities, long buried by the economist's penchant for…
Rapturous praise met the publication of Lucas Bridges' marvellous chronicle of Tierra del Fuego when it first came out in 1948, and that praise has hardly abated these past 60 years, nor has a book been written that supplants "Uttermost Part of the…
Coastal exposures of the Santa Cruz Formation in southern Patagonia have been a fertile ground for recovery of Early Miocene vertebrates for more than 100 years. This volume presents a comprehensive compilation of important mammalian groups which co…
Claude Lanzmann är en av de franska intellektuella nittonhundratalsgiganterna. I Sverige är han kanske mest känd för den nio timmar långa dokumentärfilmen om judeförintelsen, Shoah, och för att under många år ha levt i en triangelrelation med Simone…
This study is concerned with the forty-year period before 1930, when Argentina experienced rapid economic and social growth broken only by the First World War. The Radical Civic Union appeared in the 1912 elections and in 1916 its leader, Hipolito Y…
A study of the life of Juan Peron, discussing his achievements and the unique bond that united Peron and his fellow Argentinians in a relationship of unusual loyalty
The Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges was one of the most influential figures to emerge from the great blossoming of South American literature in the twentieth century. As a scholar, poet, critic and writer of fiction he was widely read in English trans…