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Vicious Cycles: Recent Works on Argentine History

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A HOUSE DIVIDED: ARGENTINA, 1880–1980. By CRAWLEYEDUARDO. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. 472. $35.00.)

THE DISMANTLING OF THE GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY. By WOODBRYCE. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. Pp. 290. $27.50.)

THE ARGENTINE LABOR MOVEMENT, 1930–1945: A STUDY IN THE ORIGINS OF PERONISM. By TAMARINDAVID. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985. Pp. 273. $27.50.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Richard J. Walter*
Affiliation:
Washington University
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Copyright © 1988 by Latin American Research Review

References

Notes

1. Robert A. Potash, The Army and Politics in Argentina 1928–1945: Yrigoyen to Perón (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969); and The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1945–1962: Perón to Frondizi (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980).

2. See Potash, Army and Politics, 1928–1945, 185.

3. For example, Carlos Escudé, Gran Bretaña, Estados Unidos y la declinación argentina, 1942–1949 (Buenos Aires: Editorial de Belgrano, 1983); R. A. Humphreys, Latin America and the Second World War, 2 vols. (London, 1981, 1982); Mario Rapoport, Gran Bretaña, Estados Unidos y las classes dirigentes argentinas: 1940–1945 (Buenos Aires, 1981); and Randall Bennett Woods, The Roosevelt Foreign-Policy Establishment and the “Good Neighbor”: The United States and Argentina, 1941–1945 (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1979).

4. Bryce Wood, The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961).

5. Some representative works in English that deal with these issues are Robert J. Alexander, The Perón Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951); Samuel L. Baily, Labor, Nationalism, and Politics in Argentina (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1967); George I. Blanksten, Perón's Argentina (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953); Prologue to Perón: Argentina in Depression and War, 1930–1943, edited by Mark Falcoff and Ronald H. Dolkart (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975); Joseph A. Page, Perón: A Biography (New York: Random House, 1983); and Arthur P. Whitaker, The United States and Argentina (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954).

6. For example, Alfredo L. Palacios was Latin America's first socialist deputy, not senator (p. 28); Hipólito Yrigoyen did not enjoy a majority in the Chamber of Deputies when elected in 1916 (p. 37); Roberto Ortiz was not president in 1936 (p. 64); and the election that elevated Perón to the presidency in 1946 was held on 24 February, not 26 February (p. 106).