Mark D. Szuchman

Order, family, and community in Buenos Aires, 1810-1860

1. Home, neighborhood, power 2. Disorder and social control 3. Growing up in the city 4. Youth and the challenges to the moral order 5. Children, politics, and education 6. The political dimensions of household changes 7. Conclusions: masses and political obligation Methodological appendix Notes Bibliography Index.

Disorder and Social Control in Buenos Aires, 1810-1860

Disorder and Social Control in Buenos Aires, I8I0-I860 One of the major consequences of the wars for independence in Spanish America was the breakdown of traditional lines of authority. Throughout most of the former Spanish Empire, the colonial dynamics of power and deference were challenged by the struggles among new and contentious claimants to political supremacy. This article explores the judicial consequences of the first half-century of turbulent politics following Argentine independence by focusing on the effects brought upon the criminal justice system in the city of Buenos Aires, the former capital of the Viceroyalty of the River Plate. Buenos Aires is a particularly useful locus for the study of social control in Latin America within a Western framework.

Crime and the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires, 1785-1853 (review)

y completa de lo que ocurre a partir de 1808 si se siguen analizando sus procesos historicos de forma separada como si America y la Peninsula pertenecieran a dos entidades diferentes antes incluso de la independencia. Planteamiento propio tal vez de la ciencia politica, que no de la historia. Esto se debe, quiza, a que Brefia no ha reflexionado suficiente desde su metodologfa, ya que como investigation empirica, su aportacion al analisis historico es inexistente.

Region and Nation: Politics, Economy, and Society in Twentieth-Century Argentina (review)

nism.” He points out that after the early negative or pathological assessments of the movement by Guillermo de Torre and others who likened it to European fascism, Abelardo Ramos spearheaded a new view which saw Peronism as a “liberating movement.” This perception gained acceptance in the 1960s and 1970s. Influential scholars like Gino Germani and Torcuato di Tella also discerned positive features and held that Peronism was an outgrowth of Argentina’s modernization process (p. 53). Plotkin notes the important analysis provided by Murmis and Portantiero who define Peronism as a polyclass alliance of workers, sectors of the army, and industrialists. Plotkin also calls attention to two topics about which much has been written: the figures of Juan and Eva Perón. Two novels by Tomás Eloy Martínez provide compelling interpretations of these personalities.

Freud in the Pampas: The Emergence and Development of a Psychoanalytic Culture in Argentina (review)

How many countries can chronicle their twentieth-century cultural, political, and ideological experiences through the lens of the psychoanalytic community? No nation in the Americas has a larger percentage of the population practicing psychoanalysis than Argentina; no city in the world, with the possible exception of Paris, has a larger percentage of psychoanalysts than Buenos Aires. Few societies in the world rival the Argentine middle and upper classes in their awareness of mental health and the subconscious in shaping their lives and the life of their country.

Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914 (review)

The result of exhaustive, cross-Atlantic research over the course of several years, Samuel Bailys new book demonstrates the usefulness of a richly comparative model in examining the lives of Italians who comprised an extraordinary proportion of the Europeans who came to the Americas in the age of mass migration. The use of comparative frameworks has been on the rise lately, often with salutary results that point to both regional peculiarities and connective threads in the course of Latin Americas history. Bailys approach is unusual. He is one of the very few historians of immigration in the national period who has worked the documentation found on both sides of the Atlantic, down to the municipal levels of New York, Buenos Aires, Agnone, and Valdengo. These documents include manuscript census schedules, vital records, passport registries, voluntary association membership lists, family correspondence, and other sources that pinpoint social data down to the level of the individual. This is an obviously time-consuming approach but the yield is ample, as this work demonstrates.

Children of Facundo: Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency During the Argentine State-Formation Process (La Rioja, 1853-1870) (review)

The Radicals in this early period did not follow their famous electoral strategy of abstention, but they competed in elections with some success in both the capital and the Province of Buenos Aires. However, the party collapsed and in 1897 dissolved after the suicide of its first leader, Leandro Alem, and quarrels between other important figures over strategy and power. Alonso is careful to stress that her arguments cover only this first period but as she points out, this epoch is crucial in establishing the mystique of Radicalism.

Buenos Aires: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production. By David William Foster. (Gainesville: The University Press of Florida, 1998. Pp. 232. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index.

David Fosters model of Buenos Aires virtually defines the city as a producer of culture, although it is never clear whether it is because this city produces cultural manifestations by virtue of its particularistic functions, or, alternatively, because culture merely reflects the inherently richer developmental terrain of major cities, including Buenos Aires. Foster examines both texts and images that reflect the subjective relationships of individuals who inhabit porteno space. Each of its eight chapters is dedicated to a different aspect of popular culture.