Table of Contents

List of Maps List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Preface I. The Spanish Settlements, 1516-1680 II. The Rise of Buenos Aires, 1680-1810 III. Revolution and Dictatorship, 1810-1852 IV. The Formation of the Nation-State, 1852-1890 V. Four Seasons of Democracy, 1890-1930 VI. From Oligarchy to Populism, 1930-1946 VII. The Apogee of Peron, 1946-1955 VIII. A Nation in Deadlock, 1955-1976 IX. The New Autocracy and the New Democracy, 1976-1987 Notes Glossary of Spanish Terms Select Bibliography Index

About the Author

David Rock is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His Politics of Argentina, 1890-1930 won the 1976 Herbert E. Bolton Prize for Latin American history. He is author of Authoritarian Argentina (1993) and editor of Latin America in the Nineteen Forties (1994), both available from the University of California Press.