History of Argentina: Penn-in-Buenos Aires

While focusing on economic, political and social developments, the class will explore the tensions and paradoxes of Argentina from the XIX Century to the present: the wars of independence and the lengthy conflict for dominance between centralist and federalist interests; the emergence of the modern nation and its integration to the world economy after 1880; immigration, the “alluvial society,” the effects of rapid cultural modernization and the dramatic years of Juan and Eva Peron; military dictatorships and the neoliberal democracy at the end of the XX century; the XXI century, economic default, recuperation, and the challenges of the Argentine cultural and economic integration to Latin America, the A.L.C.A., MERCOSUR, and A.L.B.A. Taught in Spanish.