Marcelo T. de Alvear

Introducirse en la vida de Manuel Jose Joaquin del Corazon de Jesus Belgrano es una apasionante tarea porque permite conocer el pensamiento de la revolucion de un pais, la preparacion de las mentes, las inteligencias, las creencias, a traves del pensamiento circunspecto o la palabra encendida y calida de largos anos de predica en los que, a la vez, desarrolla una accion practica y eficaz para ampliar las bases del comercio, mejorar la distribucion de bienes, lograr mayores volumenes de mercancias; producir mas y exportar mejor.

"Examines in great detail economic policy-making during the presidency of Alfonsín. Sees the administration's ultimate failure occurring due to the attempts to make social pacts with the corporatist bodies representing labor, agriculture, and industry. Author believes that the administration lost its credibility by attempting policies that had little chance of success"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

This book aims at following a path of tensions, analysing the forms born by the internationalization projects Argentine art and artistic avant-gardes adopted in the sixties. The author describes the conditions that paved the way for their conception, the strategies to accomplish them, the images that best suited their representation and the antagonistic and opposing discourses, which beat the rhythm of the controversies that characterized the period.

"Retired general blames the pacifism, isolationism, legalism, moralism, and Eurocentricity of some members of Argentina's political and economic elite for engendering the lack of 'territorial consciousness' that encouraged the acceptance of detrimental border agreements such as those signed with Chile in 1881/1893. Questionable facts and arguments but reflects the uncompromising nationalistic views of some significant military and political groups"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.