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Argentina’s Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History (Liverpool Latin American Studies LUP)

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Argentina’s Partisan Past is a challenging new study about the production, the spread and the usage of understandings of national history and identity for political purposes in twentieth-century Argentina. In line with extensive research of number one and published sources, it analyses how nationalist views about what it meant to be Argentine were built into the country’s long drawn-out crisis of liberal democracy from the 1930s to the 1980s.

Eschewing the notion of any straightforward relationship between cultural customs, ideas and political practices, the study seeks to offer a more nuanced framework for understanding the interplay between popular culture, intellectuals and the state in the promotion, co-option and repression of conflicting narratives about the nation’s history. Particular attention is given to the conditions for the production and the political use of cultural goods, especially the writings of historians. The intimate linkage between history and politics, it’s argued, helped Argentina’s partisan past of the period following independence to cast its shadow onto the middle decades of the twentieth century. This process is scrutinised within the framework of latest approaches to the study of nationalism, in an try to keep up a correspondence the major scholarly debates of this field with the case of Argentina.

The book is a valuable resource to both students of Argentine history and those interested in the ways during which nationalism has shaped our latest world.

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