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Falklands/Malvinas 1982
After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, this book allows for a new and rounded reading of the causes, course and consequences of the war. It provides a comprehensive overview of the Falkland/Malvinas War by integrating the military history of the conflict into the diplomatic, political, social and cultural aspects of the war. Including a substantial body of advocacy, chronicle, narrative and analysis, the volume draws upon an extensive range of published sources, in English and Spanish, primary sources from both sides and unpublished testimonies. The book, written by Argentine and Australian historians and scholars, discuss themes such as the background to the war, the offensive campaign for the islands and the English and Argentine experiences and memories of the war from the perspective of the islanders. Being part of the Wars and Battles of the World series, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of military history, British history, Latin American history, defence and strategic studies, geopolitics and modern history.
The Global First World War
This volume deals with the multiple impacts of the First World War on societies from South Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, usually largely overlooked by the historiography on the conflict. Due to the lesser intensity of their military involvement in the war (neutrals or latecomers), these countries or regions were considered "peripheral" as a topic of research. However, in the last two decades, the advances of global history recovered their importance as active wartime actors and that of their experiences. This book will reconstruct some experiences and representations of the war that these societies built during and after the conflict from the prism of mediators between the war fought in the battlefields and their homes, as well as the local appropriations and resignifications of their experiences and testimonies.
Propaganda and Neutrality
This is the first broad-ranging, comprehensive and comparative study of the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. Bringing together world-leading and early career historians, this open access book explores case studies from the time of the First World War to the end of the Cold War in countries such as Belgium, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Switzerland, Vichy France, USA, Argentina, Turkey, Portuguese Macau, Brazil, South Africa, Laos, Yugoslavia, Egypt, India, Malta, and Sweden. The individual chapters analyse the methods and channels of propaganda utilised in neutral countries, including rumours, newspapers, cartoons, films, pamphlets and magazines as well as radio broadcasts, officia...
Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina
Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina tackles the meaning of "the nation" by looking to the geographical, ideological, and political peripheries of society. What it means to be Argentine has long consumed writers, political leaders, and many others. For almost two centuries prominent figures have defined national values while looking out from the urban centers of the country and above all Buenos Aires. They have described the nation in terms of urban experience and, secondarily, by surrounding frontiers; they have focused on the country’s European heritage and advanced an entangled vision of race and space. The chapters in this book take a dynamic new approach. While scholars and political leaders have routinely ignored the country’s many peripheries, the Argentine nation cannot be reasonably understood without them. Those on the margins also defined core tenets of the nation. This volume will be vital reading for those interested in how Latin American societies emerged over the past two centuries and for those curious about how ideas outside of the mainstream come to define national identities.
La historia de Billiken
Situada en el corazón de nuestros recuerdos afectivos y nuestra memoria histórica, la revista Billiken es uno de los productos culturales infantiles más importantes de la Argentina y de América Latina. Este libro propone un recorrido crítico a través de los primeros cien años de su publicación (1919-2019), sus luces y sus sombras, sus continuidades y sus cambios, su articulación con los gobiernos de turno y su capacidad de ocupar una indiscutida centralidad en la cultura nacional. Situada en el corazón de nuestros recuerdos afectivos, la revista Billiken, fundada en 1919, es uno de los productos culturales infantiles más importantes de la Argentina y de América Latina y un caso ...
Malvinas. Historia, conflictos, perspectivas
Arriesgada en sus apuestas y definiciones, la obra de Federico Lorenz fue pionera al propiciar estudios sociohistóricos sobre las islas Malvinas, ampliando las investigaciones más allá de la ocupación británica de 1833, el reclamo diplomático y la guerra de 1982. Fiel a su perspectiva y a partir de su experiencia como historiador, docente y director del Museo Malvinas e Islas del Atlántico Sur entre 2016 y 2018, el autor propone revisar los “relatos públicos” sobre las islas a 40 años de la guerra entre Argentina y Gran Bretaña. Analiza las formas en que la definición de una “causa nacional” –la recuperación del archipiélago– limita y condiciona las preguntas que pod...
La legítima hereditaria
La legítima hereditaria es un medio de protección de la familia en un Estado Constitucional de Derecho; es una política de Estado que reglamenta razonable y ajustadamente derechos reconocidos en la Constitución Nacional, como es el derecho de propiedad y su expresión la libertad de testar, constituyéndose en un objetivo de bien común. Desde antiguo ha sido una preocupación de las culturas y de los pueblos proteger a la familia, como célula nuclear de la sociedad. La enseñanza que brinda la historia de los pueblos demuestra la gravitación decisiva de la familia sobre la fuerza de una nación. Instituida por Vélez Sarsfield en el Código Civil que rigió desde 1871 hasta el 2015, p...
Long Journey to Justice
As bloody wars raged in Central America during the last third of the twentieth century, hundreds of North American groups “adopted” villages in war-torn Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Unlike government-based cold war–era Sister City programs, these pairings were formed by ordinary people, often inspired by individuals displaced by US-supported counterinsurgency operations. Drawing on two decades of work with former refugees from El Salvador as well as unprecedented access to private archives and oral histories, Molly Todd’s compelling history provides the first in-depth look at “grassroots sistering.” This model of citizen diplomacy emerged in the mid-1980s out of relationships between a few repopulated villages in Chalatenango, El Salvador, and US cities. Todd shows how the leadership of Salvadorans and left-leaning activists in the US concerned with the expansion of empire as well as the evolution of human rights–related discourses and practices created a complex dynamic of cross-border activism that continues today.
