Buenos Aires: 400 Years

Published by University of Texas Press 1982

Buenos Aires

400 Years

Edited by: Stanley R. Ross and Thomas F. McGann

https://doi.org/10.7560/707382

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Buenos Aires has been called the Paris of Latin America, and the comparison is just, for in style of life and city design Buenos Aires resembles not only the City of Light but also the other great world capitals—London, Rome, New York. Buenos Aires: 400 Years attests to the long, diverse, and fascinating life of this urban mass of some six hundred square miles and eleven million inhabitants, which began as a tiny palisaded outpost on the remote fringe of the Spanish Empire. That colonial past is skillfully described here, but so too is the future of Buenos Aires. Each essay reveals much about the sociological and economic life of the city and the dynamic history of its people. This informative volume derives from a conference held at the Library of Congress in September 1980, which was dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the founding of Buenos Aires. The conference was jointly sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin and the Municipality of Buenos Aires.

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Stanley R. Ross (1921–1985) and Thomas F. McGann (1920–1982) were Professors of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Daniel J. Boorstin Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Prologue Jorge Aja Espil Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Stanley R. Ross and Thomas F. McGann Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
I. The Historical City
1. Outpost to Entrepôt: Trade and Commerce at Colonial Buenos Aires Jonathan C. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Buenos Aires at the Time of Independence Susan M. Socolow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3. The Argentine Capital in the Nineteenth Century James R. Scobie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
4. Continuity and Conflict in Buenos Aires: Comments on the Historical City Mark D. Szuchman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
II. The Contemporary City
5. The Socioeconomic Growth of Buenos Aires in the Twentieth Century Richard J. Walter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
6. Buenos Aires: Culture and Poetry in the Modern City Merlin H. Forster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
7. Buenos Aires: Today and Tomorrow Roberto Etchepareborda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
8. How to Know the City Joseph S. Tulchin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
III. Two Final Perceptions
9. A View from the Provinces Christián García-Godoy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
10. A Porteño's View of His City Luis A. Arocena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 214

eBook

Published: September 12, 2014
ISBN: 9781477302910