The course grade for undergraduates will be determined by a mid-term exam (40%) and a take-home final examination (60%). Graduate students are required to attend lectures. Graduate students will each prepare a paper of 15-20 pages in length with a review of the literature on a theme or topic that has been approved by me after individual discussions. Grad students

READINGS:The required books may be purchased at the University Bookstore, except for the works that have been identified as having been placed on reserve at the Library:

Grad students' requirements include the following set of responsibilities:

1. a research paper on a topic approved after individual discussions, due at the end of the term (CMS rules are required)
2. attendance in regularly scheduled classes is required; additional meetings will be scheduled throughout the term
3. the same readings as the undergraduate component Back to READINGS
4. additional readings, organized along thematic and temporal categories (students will select readings and present them): Colonial Society and Economy; Revolution and the Formation of the Early State;  Nation-building and Elite Coalescence;  Political Modernization and Party Politics; and Masses and Mobilization.

• Colonial Society and Economy:

Amaral, Samuel. "Rural Production and Labour in Late Colonial Buenos Aires." Journal of Latin American Studies 19, no. 2 (1987):235-78.
Amaral, Samuel, Juan Carlos Garavaglia, Jorge Gelman, and Carlos Mayo. "Polémica: Gauchos, Campesinos y Fuerza de Trabajo en la Campaña Rioplatense Colonial." Anuario del IEHS, no. 2 (1987):21-70.
Ansaldi, Waldo. "Notas sobre la formación de la burguesía argentina, 1780-1880." In Orígenes y desarrollo de la burguesía en América Latina, edited by Enrique Florescano, 518-83. Mexico: Editorial Nueva Imagen, 1985.
Brown, Jonathan C. A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Gelman, Jorge. "Los caminos del mercado: Campesinos, estancieros y pulperos en una región del Río de la Plata colonial." Latin American Research Review 28, no. 2 (1993):89-118.
Halperín Donghi, Tulio. "El antiguo orden y su crisis como tema de Recuerdos de Provincia." Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani 1 <3a Serie> (1er Semestre 1989):7-22.
------. Guerra y finanzas en los orígenes del Estado argentino, 1791-1850. Buenos Aires: Editorial del Belgrano, 1982.
Johnson, Lyman L. "Manumission in Colonial Buenos Aires, 1776-1810." Hispanic American Historical Review 59 (May 1979):258-79.
Lynch, John. Spanish Colonial Administration, 1782-1810: The Intendant System in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. London: University of London, Athlone Press, 1958.
Socolow, Susan M. The Bureaucrats of Buenos Aires, 1769-1810: Amor Al Real Servicio. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987.
------. "Economic Activities of the Porteño Merchants: The Viceregal Period." Hispanic American Historical Review 55 (February 1975):1-24.
------. "Marriage, Birth, and Inheritance: The Merchants of Eighteenth-Century Buenos Aires." Hispanic American Historical Review 60 (August 1980):387-406.
------. The Merchants of Buenos Aires, 1778-1810. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
Szuchman, Mark D., and Jonathan C. Brown, eds. Revolution and Restoration: The Rearrangement of Power in Argentina, 1776-1860. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
• The Formation of the Revolutionary State:

Chiaramonte, José Carlos. "El federalismo argentino en la primera mitad del siglo XIX." In Federalismos latinoamericanos, Coord Marcello Carmagnani. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica. Colegio de México, 1993.
Goldman, Noemí. El discurso político como objeto de la historia. El discurso político de Mariano Moreno. Buenos Aires: Hachette, 1989.
------. Historia y lenguaje: los discursos de la Revolución de Mayo. Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina, 1992.
------. "Legalidad y legitimidad en el caudillismo. Juan Facundo Quiroga y La Rioja en el interior rioplatense (1810-1835)." Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana "Dr. Emilio Ravignani" (1993).
Halperín Donghi, Tulio. "El antiguo orden y su crisis como tema de Recuerdos de Provincia." Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani 1 <3a Serie> (1er Semestre 1989):7-22.
------. "Sarmiento's Place in Postrevolutionary Argentina." In Sarmiento: Author of a Nation, Tulio Halperín Donghi, Iván Jaksic, Gwen Kirkpatrick, and Francine Masiello, 19-30. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Lynch, John. Argentine Dictator: Juan Manuel de Rosas, 1829-1852. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Romero, José Luis. A History of Argentine Political Thought. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1963.
Salvatore, Ricardo D. "Autocratic State and Labor Control in the Argentine Pampas. Buenos Aires, 1829-1852." Journal of Peasant Studies 18 (Summer 1991).
Sarmiento, Domingo F. Recuerdos de Provincia. Buenos Aires: Sopena, 1950.
Szuchman, Mark D. "Disorder and Social Control in Buenos Aires, 1810-1860." Journal of Interdisciplinary History XV (Summer 1984):83-110.
------. "Household Structure and Political Crisis: Buenos Aires, 1810-1860." Latin American Research Review 21, no. 3 (1986):55-93.
Szuchman, Mark D., and Jonathan C. Brown, eds. Revolution and Restoration: The Rearrangement of Power in Argentina, 1776-1860. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
Whigham, Thomas. The Politics of River Trade: Tradition and Development in the Upper Plata, 1780-1870. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
• Nation-building and Elite Coalescence:

Armus, Diego, comp. Mundo urbano y cultura popular. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1990.
Bagú, Sergio. "Tres oligarquías, tres nacionalismos." Cuadernos Políticos, no. 3 (enero-marzo 1975).
Baily, Samuel L. "The Adjustment of Italian Immigrants in Buenos Aires and New York, 1870-1914." American Historical Review 88 (April 1983):281-305.
Balmori, Diana. "Family and Politics: Three Generations (1790-1910)." Journal of Family History 10 (Fall 1985):247-57.
Balmori, Diana, and Robert Oppenheimer. "Family Clusters: Generational Nucleation in Nineteenth-Century Argentina and Chile." Comparative Studies in Society and History 21 (April 1979):231-61.
Bejarano, Manuel. "Inmigración y estructuras tradicionales en Buenos Aires (1854-1930)." In Los fragmentos del poder, edited by Torcuato S. Di Tella and Tulio Halperín Donghi, 75-149. Editorial Jorge Alvarez, 1969.
Beyhaut, Gustavo, Roberto Cortés Conde, Haydée Gorostegui, and Susana Torrado. "Los inmigrantes en el sistema ocupacional argentino." In Argentina, sociedad de masas, edited by Torcuato S. Di Tella, Gino Germani, Jorge Graciarena, and et al, 85-123. Buenos Aires: EUDEBA, 1965.
Cornblit, Oscar. "Inmigrantes y empresarios en la política argentina." In Los fragmentos del poder, edited by Torcuato S. Di Tella and Tulio Halperín Donghi, 389-438. Buenos Aires: Editorial Jorge Alvarez, 1969.
Cornblit, Oscar, Ezequiel Gallo, and A. O'Connel. "La Generación del 80 y su proyecto: antecedentes y consecuencias." In Argentina, sociedad de masas, edited by Torcuato Di Tella, Gino Germani, and Jorge Graciarena, 18-58. Buenos Aires: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1971.
Cortes Conde, Roberto. "Problemas del crecimiento industrial (1870-1914)." In Argentina, sociedad de masas, edited by Torcuato Di Tella, Gino Germani, and Jorge Graciarena, 59-84. Buenos Aires: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1971.
Di Tella, Torcuato S., and Manuel Zymelman. Las etapas del desarrollo económico argentino. Buenos Aires: EUDEBA, 1967.
Ferns, H. S. Britain and Argentina in the Nineteenth Century. London: Oxford University Press, 1960.
Germani, Gino. Estructura social de la Argentina. Análisis estadístico. Buenos Aires: Editorial Raigal, 1955.
Giménez Zapiola, Marcos, comp. El régimen oligárquico. Materiales para el estudio de la realidad argentina. Buenos Aires: Amorrortu Editores, 1975.
Helg, Aline. "Race in Argentina and Cuba, 1880-1930." In The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940, edited by Richard Graham, 37-69. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1990.
Hodge, John E. "The Formation of the Argentine Public Primary and Secondary School System." The Americas XLIV (July 1987):45-65.
Ingenieros, José. Las direcciones filosóficas de la cultura argentina. Buenos Aires: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1963.
Johns, Michael. "The Antinomies of Ruling Class Culture: The Buenos Aires Elite, 1880-1910." 74-101. 1993.
Korn, Francis. "Algunos aspectos de la asimilación de inmigrantes en Buenos Aires." In Los fragmentos del poder, edited by Torcuato S. Di Tella and Tulio Halperín Donghi, 439-60. Buenos Aires: Editorial Jorge Alvarez, 1969.
Korzeniewicz, Roberto P. "Labor Unrest in Argentina, 1887-1907." Latin American Research Review 24, no. 3 (1989):71-98.
López, Lucio V. La gran aldea. Buenos Aires: Editorial Kapelusz, 1965.
Marsal, Juan F. Hacer la América: autobiografía de un inmigrante español en la Argentina. Buenos Aires: Editorial del Instituto, 1969.
Moya, José C. "Parientes y Extraños: Actitudes Hacia los Inmigrantes Españoles en la Argentina en el Siglo XIX y Comienzos del Siglo XX." Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos 4, no. 13 (1989):499-523.
Panettieri, José. Los trabajadores. Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de America Latina, 1982.
Pianetto, Ofelia, and Mabel Galliari. "La inserción social de los inmigrantes españoles en la ciudad de Córdoba, 1870-1914." Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos 4, no. 13 (1989):583-608.
Rock, David. "Intellectual Precursors of Conservative Nationalism in Argentina, 1900-1927." Hispanic American Historical Review 67 (May 1987):271-300.
Sargent, Charles S. The Spatial Evolution of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1870-1930. Tempe: Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University, 1974.
Scobie, James R. "Buenos Aires as a Commercial-Bureaucratic City, 1880-1910." American Historical Review LXXVII (October 1972):1035-73.
------. Secondary Cities of Argentina: The Social History of Corrientes, Salta, and Mendoza, 1850-1910. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Sofer, Eugene F., and Mark D. Szuchman. "Educating Immigrants: Voluntary Associations in the Acculturation Process." In Educational Alternatives in Latin America: Social Change and Social Stratification, edited by Thomas La Belle, 334-59. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975.
Solberg, Carl E. "Immigration and Urban Social Problems in Argentina and Chile, 1890-1914." Hispanic American Historical Review 49 (May 1969):215-32.
Soler, Ricaurte. El positivismo argentino: pensamiento filosófico y sociológico. Panama: Imprenta Nacional, 1959.
Spalding, Hobart A. "Education in Argentina, 1890-1914: The Limits of Oligarchical Reform." Journal of Interdisciplinary History III (Summer 1972):31-61.
Szuchman, Mark D. "The Limits of the Melting Pot in Urban Argentina: Marriage and Integration in Córdoba, 1869-1909." Hispanic American Historical Review 57 (February 1977):24-50.
------. Mobility and Integration in Urban Argentina: Córdoba in the Liberal Era. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1980.
Torrado, Susana. "Cambios en la estructura social de la Provincia de Córdoba en el período de la inmigración masiva, 1870-1914." In Jornadas de historia y economía argentina en los siglos XVIII y XIX. Buenos Aires - Rosario: N.p., 1964.
Walter, Richard J. "The Intellectual Background of the 1918 University Reform in Argentina." Hispanic American Historical Review 49 (May 1969):233-53.
• Political Modernization and Party Politics:

Cortés Conde, Roberto, and Ezequiel Gallo. La formación de la argentina moderna. Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1967.
Greenberg, Daniel. "Sugar Depression and Agrarian Revolt: The Argentine Radical Party and the Tucumán Cañeros' Strike of 1927." Hispanic American Historical Review, 68 (May 1987):301-328.
Luna, Félix. Fuerzas hegemónicas y partidos políticos. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1989.
Rock, David. Politics in Argentina, 1890-1930: The Rise and Fall of Radicalism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Sábato, Hilda. "Citizenship, Political Participation and the Formation of the Public Sphere in Buenos Aires, 1850s-1880s." Past and Present, no. 136 (1992):139-63.
Sábato, Hilda, and Elías Palti. "¨Quién Votaba en Buenos Aires? Práctica y Teoría del Sufragio, 1850-1880." Desarrollo Económico 30 (octubre-diciembre 1990):397-424.
Torres, Juan G. "Labor Politics of Radicalism in Argentina, 1916-1930." Dissertation: University of California, San Diego, 1982.
Walter, Richard J. The Socialist Party of Argentina, 1890-1930. Austin: The University of Texas at Austin, 1977.
• Masses and Mobilization:

Adelman, Jeremy, ed. Essays in Argentine Labour History, 1870-1930. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1992.
Alexander, Robert J. Juan Domingo Perón: A History. Boulder: Westview Press, 1979.
Bagú, Sergio. "Tres oligarquías, tres nacionalismos." Cuadernos Políticos, no. 3 (enero-marzo 1975).
Baily, Samuel L. Labor, Nationalism, and Politics in Argentina. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1967.
Blanksten, George. Peron's Argentina. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953.
Calvert, Susan, and Peter Calvert. Argentina: Political Culture and Instability. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
------. Argentina: Political Culture and Instability. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
Canton, Darío. Elecciones y partidos políticos en la Argentina. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 1973.
Canton, Dario. Elecciones y partidos políticos en la Argentina. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno, 1973.
------. El parlamento argentino en épocas de cambio: 1890, 1916, y 1946. Buenos Aires: Editorial del Instituto Torcutato Di Tella, 1966.
------. La política de los militares argentinos, 1900-1971. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno, 1971.
Canton, Dario, and J. Jorrat. "Occupation and Vote in Urban Argentina: The March 1973 Presidential Election." Latin American Research Review XIII, no. 1 (1978):146-57.
Collier, Ruth Berins, and David Collier. Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Díaz Alejandro, Carlos F. Essays on the Economic History of the Argentine Republic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.
Falcoff, Mark, and Ronald Dolkart. Prologue to Perón: Argentina in the Depression and War, 1930-1943. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
García-Heras, Raúl. "World War II and the Frustrated Nationalization of the Argentine British-Owned Railways, 1939-1943." Journal of Latin American Studies 17 (May 1985):135-55.
Guy, Donna J. "Prostitution and Female Criminality in Buenos Aires, 1875-1937." In The Problem of Order in Changing Societies: Essays on Crime and Policing in Argentina and Uruguay, 1750-1940, edited by Lyman L. Johnson, 89-116. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990.
------. Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family and Nation in Argentina. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.
Hodges, Donald C. Argentina, 1943-1976: The National Revolution and Resistance. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976.
Horowitz, Joel. "Occupational Community and the Creation of a Self-Styled Elite: Railroad Workers in Argentina." Americas XLII (July 1985):55-81.
James, Daniel. "October 17th and 18th, 1945: Mass Protest, Peronism, and the Argentine Working Class." Journal of Social History 21 (Spring 1988):441-61.
------. Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946-1976. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Josephs, Ray. Argentine Diary. New York: Random House, 1944.
Kirkpatrick, Jeanne. Leader and Vanguard in Mass Society: A Study of Peronist Argentina. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1971.
Lavrin, Asunción. "Women, Labor and the Left: Argentina and Chile, 1890-1925." Journal of Women's History 1 (Fall 1989):88-116.
Little, Walter. "Party and State in Peronist Argentina, 1945-1955." Hispanic American Historical Review 53 (November 1973):644-62.
Luna, Felix. El 45: Crónica de un año decisivo. Buenos Aires: Editorial J. Alvarez, 1969.
Merkx, Gilbert W. "Recessions and Rebellions in Argentina, 1870-1930." Hispanic American Historical Review 53 (May 1973):285-95.
------. "Sectoral Clashes and Political Change: The Argentine Experience." Latin American Research Review IV (Fall 1969):89-113.
Murmis, Miguel, and Juan C. Portantiero. Estudios sobre los orígenes del peronismo. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Argentina Editores, 1971.
O'Donnell, Guillermo. "Reflections on the Patterns of Change in the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State." Latin American Research Review XIII, no. 1 (1978):3-38.
O'Donnell, Guillermo A. Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism: Studies in South American Politics. Berkeley: University of California, 1973.
Oszlak, Oscar. La conquista del orden politico y la formacion historica del estado argentino. Estudios CEDES, v. 4, no. 2. Buenos Aires: Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad, 1982.
------. La formación del estado argentino. Buenos Aires: Editorial de Belgrano, 1982.
Page, Joseph. Perón: A Biography. New York: Random House, 1983.
Peralta Ramos, M., and Carlos Waisman. From Military Rule to Liberal Democracy in Argentina. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987.
Potash, Robert A. The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1928-1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969.
Rock, David. Authoritarian Argentina: The Nationalist Movement and Its Impact. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
------. "Intellectual Precursors of Conservative Nationalism in Argentina, 1900-1927." Hispanic American Historical Review 67 (May 1987):271-300.
------. Politics in Argentina, 1890-1930: The Rise and Fall of Radicalism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Romero, Luis Alberto. "Buenos Aires, 1880-1950: Política y cultura de los sectores populares." Cuadernos Americanos 2 (March-April 1989):31-45.
Rubinstein, Juan Carlos. Desarrollo y discontinuidad política en Argentina. Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1968.
Ruggiero, Kristin Hoffman. And Here the World Ends: The Life of an Argentine Village. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "The Influence of Raul Prébisch on Economic Policy Making in Argentina, 1950-1962." Latin American Research Review XXIII, no. 2 (1988):91-115.
Smith, Peter H. Argentina and the Failure of Democracy: Conflict Among the Political Elites, 1904-1955. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974.
------. "The Social Base of Peronism." Hispanic American Historical Review 52 (February 1972):55-73.
Smith, William C. Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Smith, William Clair, Jr. Crisis of the State and Military-Authoritarian Rule in Argentina, 1966-1973. Dissertation, Stanford University. 1980.
Spalding, Hobart A., Jr. Organized Labor in Latin America: Historical Case Studies of Workers in Dependent Societies. New York: New York University Press, 1977.
Teichman, Judith. "Interest Conflict and Entrepreneurial Support for Perón." Latin American Research Review XVI, no. 1 (1981):144-55.
Tiano, Susan. "Authoritarianism and Political Culture in Argentina and Chile in the Mid-1960s." Latin American Research Review 21, no. 1 (1986):73-98.
Timerman, Jacobo. Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number. New York: Knopf, 1981.
Torres, Juan G. Labor Politics of Radicalism in Argentina, 1916-1930. Dissertation, University of California, San Diego. 1982.
Villanueva, Javier. "El origen de la industrialización argentina." Desarrollo Económico 12 (October-December 1972).
Weil, Felix J. Argentine Riddle. New York: John Day Company, 1944.
Wright, Winthrop R. British-Owned Railways in Argentina: Their Effect on the Growth of Economic Nationalism, 1854-1948. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1974.