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Transformations and Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina, 1930–1955 (Pitt Latin American Series)

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In this original study, Jorge A. Nállim chronicles the decline of liberalism in Argentina all over the volatile period between two military coups—the 1930 overthrow of
Hipólito Yrigoyen and the deposing of Juan Perón in 1955. At the same time as historians have primarily focused on liberalism in economic or political contexts, Nállim instead documents a variety of locations where liberalism was once claimed and in the long run marginalized in the pursuit of individual agendas.

Nállim shows how concepts of liberalism were espoused by more than a few groups who “invented traditions” to legitimatize their methods of political, religious, class, intellectual, or cultural hegemony. In these deeply fractured and corrupt processes, liberalism lost political favor and alienated the public. These events also set the table for Peronism and stifled the way forward for progressive liberalism in Argentina.

Nállim describes the main political parties of the period and deconstructs their liberal discourses. He also examines major cultural institutions and shows how each and every attached liberalism to their cause.

Nállim compares and contrasts the events in Argentina to those in other Latin American nations and reveals their links to international developments. At the same time as critics have positioned the rhetoric of liberalism all over this period as one of decadence or irrelevance, Nállim instead shows it to be a very important and complex factor in the metamorphosis of modern history in Argentina and Latin The united states as well.

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