Robert A. Potash, The Army & Politics in Argentina 1962–1973: From Frondizi's Fall to the Peronist Restoration (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. xv+547, £40.00 (original) (raw)

Introduction: New Direction in Twentieth-Century Argentine Political History

2014

In Argentina, the March 1976 coup d’etat is a conceptual fulcrum. Historians have neatly divided Argentina’s political, social, and cultural pasts as post- and pre-coup. There is a more compelling derivative, though, of that linear break. What the proceso means—how it is understood together with its consequences—keeps shifting, like the disturbing physical breaks in the urban geography of a futuristic Buenos Aires portrayed in novelist Ricardo Piglia’s La ciudad ausente. In part, changing understandings of what the proceso means to past and present complements Argentina’s unusual relationship with its dictatorial past. With the fall of authoritarian rule in 1983, Argentina was the first country in the region to form a truth commission to search for answers into the how and why of murderous dictatorship. It was also the first to bring to trial, convict and imprison military leaders for crimes committed as heads of state—this while dictatorships still functioned in 1980s Paraguay and ...

Argentine Foreign Policy during the Military Dictatorship, 1976–1983

2019

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A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century

Hispanic American Historical Review, 2005

has written a book that is comprehensive, balanced, and full of insights into the development-and turmoil-of modern Argentine history. This book can serve as a starter for anyone interested in the topic. Specialists too will rely on it for its analysis and detail. James Brennan's translation is outstanding.-Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University The purpose of this book is to provide a straightforward synthesis of twentieth-century Argentine history in all its complexity and paradox.. .. Romero focuses on Argentina's place in the larger world, the role of the state, and the influence of culture and intellectuals on the nation's development.-Richard J. Walter, reviewing the Spanish-language edition in The American Historical Review A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, originally published in Buenos Aires in 1994, attained instantaneous status as a classic. Written as an introductory text for university students and the general public, it is a profound reflection on the Argentine dilemma and the challenges that the country faces as it tries to rebuild democracy. In the book, Romero painstakingly and brilliantly reconstructs and analyzes Argentina's tortuous, often tragic modern history, from the alluvial society born of mass immigration, to the dramatic years of Juan and Eva Perón, to the recent period of military dictatorship and democracy. For this first English-language edition, Romer o has written a new chapter covering the decade of the 1990s. A rare book combining great erudition with an engaging narrative, it is destined to be the standard English-language history of Argentina for many years to come. The son of Argentina's greatest twentieth-century historian, José Luis Romero, Luis Alberto Romero has emerged as one of the leading historians of his generation in Argentina. Romero's generation is one that has witnessed the most dramatic decades of the country's modern history, the decline of Argentina and its descent into violence, dictatorship, and despair, but also the hopeful if often difficult process of rebuilding democracy since the mid-1980s. Combining the rigor of the professional historian with a passionate