Civilizing Argentina

After a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis. This stark reversal, in a country rich in natural resources and seemingly bursting with progress and energy, has puzzled many historians. In Civilizing Argentina , Julia Rodriguez takes a sharply contrary view, demonstrating that Argentina’s turn of fortune is not a mystery but rather the ironic consequence of schemes to “civilize” the natio