Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alphonsín. (Updated) - Paperback

by David Rock (Author)

Includes the climactic events of the five years since the Falklands War. This title documents the early colonial history of Argentina, pointing to the colonial forms established during the Spanish conquest as the source for Argentina's reliance on foreign commercial and investment partnerships.

Author Biography

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.