10 - The River Plate republics

Summary

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The bibliography of nineteenth-century Argentina can be approached through Joseph R. Barager, ‘The historiography of the Río de la Plata area since 1930’, HAHR, 39 (1959), 588–642, and James R. Scobie, Argentina: A City and a Nation (New York, 1964), 248–74. A more specialised work is Julio O. Chiappini Bibliografia sobre Rosas (Rosario, 1973).

Public documents are reproduced in a number of collections. The formal policy reviews of the executive are given in H. Mabragaña, Los Mensajes, 1810–1910, 6 vols. (Buenos Aires, 1910); for the governors of Buenos Aires a better version is provided by Archivo Histórico de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Mensajes de los gobernadores de la provincia de Buenos Aires 1822–1849, 2 vols. (La Plata, 1976). Basic legislative, constitutional and inter-provincial texts are to be found in Emilio Ravignani (ed.), Asambleas constituyentes argentinas, 6 vols. (Buenos Aires, 1937–9). The main documentation concerning Rosas is that of Adolfo Saldías (ed.), Papeles de Rosas, 2 vols. (La Plata, 1904–7), which can be supplemented by two convenient compilations of his thought and policy, Andrés M. Carretero, El pensamiento político de juan M. de Rosas (Buenos Aires, 1970) and Arturo Enrique Sampay, Las ideas políticas de Juan Manuel de Rosas (Buenos Aires, 1972), and by a further collection of his correspondence, Juan Carlos Nicolau, ed., Correspondencia inédita entrejuan Manuel de Rosas y Manuel José García (Tandil, 1989). Aspects of the opposition to Rosas are documented in Gregorio F. Rodríguez (ed.), Contribución histórica y documental, 3 vols. (Buenos Aires, 1921–2), and Archivo Histórico de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, La campana libertadora del general Lavalle (1838–1842 (La Plata, 1944)