Dolarización

Joaquin Morales Sola, uno de los periodistas mas conocidos y mejor informados de la Argentina, presenta una vision de los principales hechos que marcaron el ascenso y caida de la Alianza, que llevara a Fernando de la Rua al poder en 1999.

"Pocos temas referidos a la segunda mitad del siglo xix argentino se han vuelto tan polémicos en los últimos años como la expedición militar liderada por Julio Argentino Roca para ocupar la zona norte de la Patagonia. Elogiada por sus defensores como "gesta heroica" y "empresa civilizatoria", denostada por sus críticos como "un genocidio" y aun como la primera aparición de la trágica figura del "desaparecido" en la historia argentina, Claudia Torre propone, en su estudio preliminar a esta antología de textos referidos a ese hecho, una interpretación alternativa, atenta a los matices...

"Thoughtful examination of royalist intrigues and monarchist sympathies within the Argentine revolutionary elite just after independence. Segreti makes it clear that although the republican option was that which won out in the end, this was by no means inevitable, and many sincere revolutionaries regarded monarchy as an appropriate solution to the political chaos of their times"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Brilliant examination of the Italian bibliographer who lent his considerable talents to the Rosas regime in the mid 1800s. Though de Angelis might have had questionable politics, his contribution to Latin American scholarship was tremendous; he assembled and organized a vitally important collection of books, maps, documents, and pamphlets on the early history of the Plata still used today. Sabor's prize-winning study is part biography, part bibliographical essay, and wholly erudite. Recommended"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.