Public Administration and Social Changes in Argentina: 1943-1955

Garcia-Zamor, Jean-Claude, Public Administration and Social Changes in Argentina: 1943-1955, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor, 1968.

Reviewed in The Americas © 1969.

From the Introduction:

The author was born in the Republic of Haiti on March 26, 1936. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and an M.P.A. from the University of Puerto Rico and an M.A. in Latin American History and a Ph.D. in International and Comparative Public Administration from New York University. He worked for several years with the governments of Puerto Rico, New York City, and the former Republic of Chad (now part of the United States of Central Africa), being appointed in 1961 Counsellor of Embassy of this African country to the United Nations.

Obras Completas: Silabario de la Decoración Americana

Rojas, Ricardo, Obras completas: Silabario de la decoración americana, Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1953.(fragil: parcialmente destruido por termitas)

Ricardo Rojas (San Miguel de Tucumán, 16 de septiembre de 1882 – Buenos Aires, 29 de julio de 1957) fue un poeta, dramaturgo, orador, político e historiador argentino. Aunque tucumano por su lugar de nacimiento, por su linaje materno y por parte de su crianza en su niñez y juventud; por linaje paterno provenía de una de las familias más influyentes de Santiago del Estero, donde su padre fue gobernador de la provincia homónima.

De Silabario Revista de Estudios y Ensayos Geoculturales. ISSN 1514-4100:

En 1930, Ricardo Rojas editó un libro de destino azaroso: Silabario de la decoración americana.[1] La elección del título apuntaba a un programa de lectura cuya praxis debía desplazarse entre los términos enseñanza/aprendizaje como campo de experimentación de una estética, una moral y un método de investigación. Mi obra es apenas una incitación para empezar a descifrar estéticamente los signos del arte americano.[2]

Fundación Ricardo Rojas.

Mitre and Argentina

Jeffrey, William H., Mitre and Argentina, New York: Library Publishers, 1952.

Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1953.

Reviewed in The Americas © 1953.

Reviewed in The American Historical Review © 1953.

From the Preface:

This study of a man, Bartolomé Mitre, and his nation, Argentina, is presented as an effort to cover, in the English language, a little known era in the history of one of our neighbors to the south, particularly as revealed in the life of one of its greatest men. It begins with the brief treatment of Argentine history from independence to the overthrow of Rosas, then turns to the life of Bartolomé Mitre himself, his early years, his wanderings in exile, his return to Argentina to recognize first Buenos Aires and then the nation. It follows him through the presidency of the nation and Argentina's greatest war and then into a retirement made useful by extensive literary efforts and an occasional return to the political and diplomatic scene. His life, spanning most of the nineteenth century, was one rich in service to the nation and the continent, well deserving the title Benemérito de la Patria.

Historia de San Martín; compendio escrito en inglés en 1892 por William Pilling

Mitre, Bartolomé, Historia de San Martín; compendio escrito en inglés en 1892 por William Pilling, Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe, 1943.

(Traducción de Julio Payró) Adaptado y puesto al día por Ismael Bucich Escobar, estudios de Joaquín V. González, prólogo de Ricardo Levene.

Historia de San Martín y de la emancipación sudamericana:

Mitre began to work on the biography of San Martín right after ending his presidency.[4] He wrote his initial project to Mariano Balcarce: he wanted to write two books, "History of San Martín" from 1812 to 1822, from San Martín's arrival to Buenos Aires to the Guayaquil conference, and "The ostracism and apotheosis of General San Martín", with his life afterwards.[5] Balcarce sent him the personal documents of San Martín in Europe for his work. (…)The second projected volume, with the life of San Martín after his military career, was never written. Historian Norberto Galasso considers that his late life was full of events that would contradict the portrait of San Martín by Mitre: his rivalry with Rivadavia, his rejection of the execution of Manuel Dorrego and his conflict with Juan Lavalle, his support to Juan Manuel de Rosas (including the gift of his sword), and his repudiation to the French and Anglo-French blockades and the role of the unitarians in them.[7] The book was finally edited in 1887.

William Pilling (1834-?) The Forgotten Author:

Strange how someone that did so much in Argentina has been forgotten, even to the extent that he does not figure in the many lists of residents in Argentina in the 19th Century.
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On the 29th of November 1890 William returns to Buenos Aires from Southampton on the ship Wordsworth. Again the date coincides with the publication of his book, as noted above, by Chapman & Hall in that year. During his time in London he wrote a short letter to Bartolome Mitre requesting his permission to publish in English a précis of the two volume edition of his Life of San Martin. The original letter, written on the letter head of a London hotel in Gower Street, is held in the Mitre Museum, Calle S. Martin, Buenos Aires. The letter is written in a familiar style, which suggests that he knew, personally, Mitre. The book appeared under the title The Emancipation of South America, being a condensed translation by William Pilling of The History of San Martin by General Don Bartolome Mitre, first constitutional president of the Argentine Republic, London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1893. Copies of the printed sheets of this book were shipped to Buenos Aires, Mitchell's bookshop trimmed and bound the books locally and sold them in Argentina, with the title page unchanged. The hard back binding was of the same colour as that of the London edition, with the addition of Mitchells Buenos Aires noted on the base of the spine, there was no change to the title page as issued, still remaining at 1893. With trimming the book is smaller, in height and width, than the London edition. A tribute to William by the Academia de la Historia was their choice of his translation of Bartolome Mitre to be used by the Academia to open their new series of books Hombres Representativos de la Historia Argentina, and a translation into Spanish by Julio Payro was arranged by them, and the edition by the Academia appeared in 1943, it was subsequently given a second edition by Espasa-Calpe in 1950, Año del Libertador General San Martin. It was also re-published in English by Cooper Square Publishers, Incorporated, New York, in 1969.

The Horsemen of the Americas and the Literature They Inspired

Tinker, Edward Larocque, The Horsemen of the Americas and the Literature They Inspired, Books of the Americas No. 1, New York: Hastings House, 1953.

Partially available online.

From the inner sleeve:

This volume presents a fascinating account of life on the cattle frontiers of the western hemisphere, together with an enlightening discussion of the amazingly rich literature that has grown up around these popular heroes, the South American gaucho, the Mexican charro and our own cowboy.

Tierra Purpurea

Hudson, Guillermo E. Tierra Purpurea, Buenos Aires: Editorial Guillermo Kraft, Limitada, 1956.

De la última página:

Este libro, titulado “Tierra Purpurea”, fue escrito por Guillermo Enrique Hudson e ilustrado por Enrique Castells Capurro. Se terminó de imprimir en Buenos Aires, en los talleres gráficos de Guillermo Kraft Limitada, sociedad anónima de impresiones generales, el día 30 de febrero de 1956, publicándose bajo el signo editorial de la misma. Dirigió la obra en su aspecto gráfico Don Alberto Kraft. Se imprimieron 25 ejemplares en papel imperial del Japón, numerados del I al XXV; 50 ejemplares en papel verjurado, fabricado especialmente por Nils, Troedson & Co. de Gotemburgo, numerados del XXVI al LXXV. Representan la edición común 5,200 ejemplares en papel off-set, numerados del 1 al 5,200, estando los últimos 200 ejemplares fuera de comercio.
(Este) Ejemplar N. 254.

The Purple Land is a novel set in 19th century Uruguay by William Henry Hudson, first published in 1885 under the title The Purple Land that England Lost.
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Jorge Luis Borges dedicated an essay to The Purple Land in his book Other Inquisitions (1952). He compared Hudson's novel to the Odyssey and described it as perhaps the "best work of gaucho literature". Borges sees the novel as the story of Richard Lamb's gradual "acriollamiento" ("Creolisation"). In other words, Lamb "goes native." To begin with, Lamb looks down on the Uruguayans, with their disorganised political system and lack of law and order and civilised amenities, thinking it would have been better for Uruguay to become part of the British Empire. But he slowly comes to see the advantages of the freedom they enjoy, especially in comparison to the stuffiness of Victorian England. According to Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, who is quoted by Borges, the final pages of the novel contain "the supreme justification of America compared with Western civilisation."

The Ambassador and the Dictator: The Braden Mission to Argentina and Its Significance for United States Relations with Latin America (separata)

McGann, Thomas F., The Ambassador and the Dictator: The Braden Mission to Argentina and Its Significance for United States Relations with Latin America, reprinted from The Centennial Review, Vol. VI, No.3, Summer 1962.

Available online.

Spruille Braden (March 13, 1894 – January 10, 1978) was an American diplomat, businessman, lobbyist, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as the ambassador of various Latin American countries, and as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. He is notable for his interventionist activities and his prominent role in several coups d'état.
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Beginning in 1948, Braden was a paid lobbyist for the United Fruit Company. When the company's interests were threatened in Guatemala by President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Braden helped to conceive and execute the 1954 coup d'état that overthrew him. In his first act as newly ignaugurated President of Nicaragua on May 1, 1967, Anastasio Somoza Debayle conferred Nicaragua's highest decoration, the Grand Cross of Ruben Dario, on Ambassador Spruille Braden and his wife Verbena for their "unstinting efforts in the cause of freedom in all of Latin America".

Mi Vida (Domingo F. Sarmiento)

Sarmiento, Domingo F., Mi Vida, Vol. 1 & 2, (Tercera Edición) Argentina: Ángel Estrada, 1938. (extremadamente frágil)

Indice (Vol. 1):

Introducción por Julio Noé.

La Historia de mis Padres.

El Hogar Paterno.

Mi Educación.

La Vida Pública.

Chile.

Viajes por Europa, África y América.

Vísperas de Casero.

Indice (Vol. 2):

Campaña en el Ejército Grande.

Emigrado Otra Vez.

Retorno a la Argentina.

Vida Pública en el Estado de Buenos Aires.

Gobierno de San Juan.

Misión Diplomática en Chile y Perú.

Diario del Ministro en Estados Unidos.

Viaje de Nueva York a Buenos Aires.

Vísperas Presidenciales.

Presidencia de la Republica.

Epilogo.

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (San Juan, Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata, 15 de febrero de 1811 – Asunción, Paraguay, 11 de septiembre de 1888) fue un político, escritor, docente, periodista y militar argentino; gobernador de la Provincia de San Juan entre 1862 y 1864, presidente de la Nación Argentina entre 1868 y 1874, Senador Nacional por su Provincia entre 1874 y 1879 y Ministro del Interior de Argentina en 1879.

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (February 15, 1811 – September 11, 1888) was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the seventh President of Argentina. His writing spanned a wide range of genres and topics, from journalism to autobiography, to political philosophy and history. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on nineteenth-century Argentina. He was particularly concerned with educational issues and was also an important influence on the region's literature.

”El Túnel”: Portrayal of Isolation

Gibbs, Beverly J., ”El Túnel”: Portrayal of Isolation, reprinted from Hispania, Vol. 48, No. 3, September, 1965.

Available online.

The Tunnel (Spanish: El túnel) is a dark, psychological novel written by Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato about a deranged porteño painter, Juan Pablo Castel, and his obsession with a woman. The story's title refers to the symbol for Castel's emotional and physical isolation from society, which becomes increasingly apparent as Castel proceeds to tell from his jail cell the series of events that enabled him to murder the only person capable of understanding him. Marked by its existential themes, El Túnel received enthusiastic support from Albert Camus and Graham Greene following its publication in 1948.

Cualquiercosario

Onetti Jorge, Cualquiercosario, La Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1965.

Índice:

El amor es un bicho.
Té para dos.
El cargajero.
No te pentecostés con la pajarera.
Como la araña peluda.
Tiempos viejos.
Las mojcas.

Jorge Onetti:

(Buenos Aires, 1931 - Madrid, 1998) Narrador y periodista uruguayo-argentino. Hijo del gran escritor uruguayo Juan Calos Onetti, ha sabido hurtarse a la poderosa sombra proyectada por la figura universal de su padre merced a una original obra narrativa que, desde un enfoque irónico y satírico, indaga con singular acierto en la realidad argentina de la segunda mitad del siglo XX (y, de manera muy señalada, en su compleja situación política y económica).

Robert Cunninghame Graham, 1852-1936: Vida Y Obra, Bibliografía, Antología

Gallo, Antonio, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham & J.M. Arce, Robert Cunninghame Graham, 1852-1936: Vida Y Obra, Bibliografía, Antología, [Volume 15 of Autores modernos], New York: Hispanic Institute of the United States, 1947.

In a crowded life — Cunninghame Graham was variously a Member of Parliament, a gaucho in South America, a fencing master, a founder member of both the Independent Labour Party and the Scottish National Party, a rancher, horse-trainer, buffalo hunter and Long Rider through North and South America — he wrote prolifically. Known as "Don Roberto," he was the author of travel books, a biography, eleven histories of Latin America and fourteen volumes of short stories and sketches.

See Don Roberto in Bernard Shaw’s Plays, and Paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints.

An Introduction to Argentina

Alexander, Robert J., An Introduction to Argentina, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1969.

Reviewed in Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 2 / Issue 01 / pp 107-108, May 1970.

Contents:

Introduction: The Problem.
I. The Land.
II. Historical Background
III. The Economy.
IV. Politics and Government.
V. People and Society.
VI. Cultural Activities
VII. Argentina and the World.
Conclusion.
Bibliographic Note.
Index.

Robert Jackson "Bob" Alexander (November 26, 1918 – April 27, 2010) was an American political activist, writer, and academic who spent most of his professional career at Rutgers University. He is best remembered for his pioneering studies on the trade union movement in Latin America and dissident communist political parties, including ground-breaking monographs on the International Communist Right Opposition, Maoism, and the international Trotskyist movement.

Argentina: A City and a Nation

Scobie, James R., Argentina: A City and a Nation, New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Reviewed in The American Historical Review © 1964.
Cited in The History Teacher © 1981.

From the Foreword:

In Argentina: A City and a Nation principal emphasis is placed on the country’s formative years – the nineteenth century. The first chapter introduces the geography and the final chapter summarizes the contemporary scene. Other chapters explore the Spanish origins, the economies of the interior and the coast, the growth of cities and industry, the predominance of Buenos Aires, the struggles for political unity, and the achievement of nationhood. A political chronology and statistical tables are provided for reference, and the annotated bibliography is intended as a guide for further study.

The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1928-1945

Potash, Robert A., The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1928-1945: Yrigoyen to Perón, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1969.

Partially available online.

Reviewed in: International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) © 1996.

From the book cover:

A detailed exploration of the role of the Army in the political life of Argentina, this volume covers a crucial period in which both the Army and the political process underwent significant change. From the last years of Radical Party rule, more specifically from the reelection in 1928 of Hipólito Yrigoyen, to the achievement in 1945 of complete political control by Colonel Juan D. Perón, the Army’s political activity is examined under a variety of regimes and conditions.
Particular attention is given to the evolution of the Army as an institution, the treatment accorded the armed forces under various governments, the influence of Army officers on policy-making, and the interaction of individual officers with the political authorizes, civilian and military. Because the officer corps contributed many of the major figures in the period covered, the author seeks to establish with some degree of precision the social origins, basic attitudes, and the role conceptions of the officers. The data on the Argentine officer corps is presented, whenever possible, in terms of identifiable individuals rather than in nameless statistics.
This is the first of two volumes; a subsequent volume will deal with the period since 1945.

Mensajes de los Gobernadores de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, 1822-1849

Archivo Histórico de la Provincia de Buenos Aires Dr. Ricardo Levene, Mensajes de los Gobernadores de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, 1822-1849, Volúmenes 1-2, La Plata: Archivo Historico de la Provincia de Buenos Aires Ricardo Levene, 1976.

Cited in The River Plate Republics and David Marley’s Historic Cities of the Americas: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Volume 1.

Cuaderno San Martin dedicado a los Derechos del Hombre

“Cuaderno San Martin dedicado a los Derechos del Hombre”, Revista Sur, Agosto – Septiembre de 1950, Año XVIII, Buenos Aires.

Revista Sur:

Fundada y dirigida por Victoria Ocampo (1891-1979), SUR se convirtió en una de las más importantes revistas literarias del mundo. Desde el primer número, aparecido en el verano de 1931 hasta el número 371 publicado en 1992, ofreció a sus lectores colaboraciones de destacados escritores argentinos y extranjeros: Jorge Luis Borges, José Ortega y Gasset, Alfonso Reyes, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Octavio Paz, Jules Supervielle, Silvina Ocampo, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Eduardo Mallea y tantos otros importantes escritores que a través de sesenta años hicieron de SUR un fresco imprescindible de la cultura del siglo XX.

Sumario

Victoria Ocampo: Introducción
Nota sobre la Exposición para ilustrar Los Derechos del Hombre
Mahatma Gandhi: Carta al Director General de la UNESCO
Asamblea de las Naciones Unidas: Declaración Universal de Derechos del Hombre
Sobre Algunos Artículos de la “Declaración Universal”:
Bart Bok: Libertad de la Ciencia;
Jean Piaget: El Derecho a la Educación.
En Torno a la “Declaración Universal”:
Carlos Sánchez Viamonte: La Declaración Universal de Derechos del Hombre y el Pensamiento Tradicional Argentino.
Carlos Alberto Erro: Los Derechos del Hombre y la Lucha Personal por el Derecho.
Ezequiel Martínez Estrada: Los Derechos del Hombre y la Rueda de Ixión.
Álvaro Fernández Suarez: El Hombre y sus Derechos en las Condiciones Objetivas del Mundo Moderno.
Sebastián Soler: Los Difíciles Derechos del Hombre.
B. Corbalán Pacheco: Nota al margen.
Jaime Benítez: Reflexiones sobre el Presente.*
*Parte de un discurso pronunciado por el rector de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, el 15 de junio de 1950, en los ejercicios de graduación del “College of the City of New York”.

Los que Mandan

de Imaz, José Luis, Los que mandan, Buenos Aires: Editorial de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1964.

Wikipedia:

Abogado, sociólogo y licenciado en ciencias políticas argentino nacido en Buenos Aires en 1928 y fallecido en 2008. Entre 1966 y 2002, fue profesor de Sociología en la Universidad Católica Argentina .Entre 1989 y 1991 fue director nacional y subsecretario de Políticas Universitarias en el Ministerio de Educación . Entre 1997 y 2000 fue legislador porteño por Nueva Dirigencia , acompañando a Gustavo Béliz.

De la carpeta del libro:

El presente trabajo es un estudio sociológico sobre los grupos dirigentes argentinos, que comprende el período que va desde 1936 hasta la fecha. El autor analiza los antecedentes, origen familiar, nivel económico social, tipo de educación recibida y carreras que han realizado las personas que, por estar al frente de las máximas instituciones representativas de cada sector, han tenido la responsabilidad de la conducción en las distintas actividades del país. Desfilan así, en estas páginas, ministros y gobernadores; titulares del Poder Ejecutivo; oficiales superiores de las Fuerzas Armadas; autoridades eclesiásticas; dirigentes de la Unión Industrial, de la Confederación General Económica, de la Sociedad Rural; miembros de los comités nacionales y las juntas ejecutivas de los partidos políticos, e integrantes del secretariado de la Confederación General del Trabajo.

A través de dicho estudio, y sobre la base de una muestra estadísticamente representativa del grupo de dirigentes, Imaz examina las diversas modalidades que ha tenido la selección de esos dirigentes. Luego de ese trabajo paciente, estrictamente técnico y metodológicamente depurado, el autor llega a la conclusión de que no existe una clase dirigente en la Argentina, único juicio de valor que, conscientemente, introduce en la obra. "No hay una clase dirigente auténtica, afirma, aunque haya muchos que mandan individual y aisladamente, cuando no de un modo excluyente y contrapuesto.

Interpreting Latin American History from. Independence to Today

Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo, Interpreting Latin American History: from Independence to Today, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. [paperback]

Excerpts from the author's preface:

The book is divided into three sections: Section One includes the histories of four republics: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico. The editor chose these countries because, in his opinion, Latin America embraces at least five peculiar historical currents. At one extreme lies what he would call the "European" republics where Europeans and their descendants account for nearly all of the population and where the culture and ideas of Europe predominate... A second category consists of the "mestizo" republics, where the Spanish conqueror superimposed his way of life upon large indigenous populations which, through the mestizo offspring of Spaniard and Indian, survived to modify not only the Spanish "race" but local culture and civilization as well. (...) Spaniard and Negro joined together to produce yet another historical current, particularly in the Caribbean and the Spanish Main. (...) Brazil, the sole Portuguese colony in the Americas, represents a fourth category. (...) Haiti with its French and Negro heritage, forms a fifth category. (...)

In Section Two, the editor has attempted to fill in some of the gaps left by selection of only four countries. It contains topics of particular importance to the histories of Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela which, at the same time, represent cross currents of Latin American growth. (...)

Section Three includes topical issues that cut across national boundaries and carry implications for each republic in the hemisphere...

Obituary in The Washington Post, Tuesday, July 13, 2010:

Ramón Eduardo Ruiz, 88, a renowned historian of Mexico and Latin America whose books included in-depth studies of the Mexican and Cuban revolutions, died July 6 at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. He had cancer and suffered complications from a recent fall. Dr. Ruiz joined the history department at the University of California at San Diego in 1970 and chaired the department in the early '70s. He wrote 15 books, including "Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People," "Cuba: The Making of a Revolution," "The Great Rebellion: Mexico, 1905-1924" and "On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of the Rich and Poor."

Relecciones Sobre Los Indios Y El Derecho De Guerra

De Vitoria, Francisco, Relecciones sobre los Indios y el derecho de guerra, Colección Austral, (Traducción y prólogo de Armando D. Pirotto), Buenos Aires: Editora Espasa-Calpe Argentina, 1946. Paperback (condition: very fragile)

De Wikipedia:

Francisco de Vitoria O.P. (Burgos o Vitoria, España; 1483/1486 - Salamanca, España; 12 de agosto de 1546) fue un fraile dominico español. La fecha y el lugar de nacimiento son discutidos por diversas fuentes. (...) La dignidad y los problemas morales de la condición humana fue el eje en torno al que se desarrolló su obra. Fue especialmente influyente por sus aportaciones jurídicas, aunque también tuvieron gran repercusión sus estudios sobre teología y sobre aspectos morales de la economía. No escribió personalmente todas sus obras, sino que nos han llegado recogidas por sus alumnos o por secretarios a partir de sus lecciones y relecciones (repeticiones que resumían al final del curso las lecciones del año). Sus enseñanzas y métodos pedagógicos dieron su fruto en forma de numerosos teólogos, juristas y universitarios a los que bien enseñó directamente o bien se vieron influidos por sus teorías (Melchor Cano, Domingo Báñez, Domingo de Soto, Francisco Suárez, etc), formando la llamada Escuela de Salamanca.

English Wikipedia