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u/tute666 · 5 pointsr/argentina

I'm back.

1st of all, there is no definitive book, you'll probably have to read a bit.

  • this Is the history book given in the CBC, the introductory course of the Buenos Aires University. It's more-o-less balanced, it does not have the most consistent style or depth. you might find really charged phrases with absolutely no explanation, and then it goes into depth regarding some irrelevant detail. But it's an excellent starting point. This looks like the extended edition which adds the menem years upto approximately 2001.

  • dirty war It pays attention to the years leading upto 1976, which is key for the context of the dirty war.

  • pre 20th century I've no faith in the modern parts of the book, but they shouldn't fuck up to much leading upto the 20th century.
u/balc9k · 2 pointsr/argentina

Take a look to some of this:

Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Transitions

[Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsín] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0520061780)

[State Building and Political Movements in Argentina, 1860-1916] (http://www.amazon.com/Building-Political-Movements-Argentina-1860-1916/dp/0804744661)

All of these are from David Rock, a well known argentinian specialiced historian.

u/dopplerdog · 1 pointr/argentina

David Rock's Argentina 1516-1987 is a pretty good english text.

Guerillas and Generals, recommended elsewhere here, is also good.

Unfortunately, my favourites are in spanish. Are you able to read any spanish?

edit: And if you're interested in the Dirty War & last dictatorship, and you have any specific questions about what you've read or there is anything that doesn't quite make sense, you could just ask here - there's a few of us who are old enough to have lived through that era. Even if you don't agree with the comments, you'll get a feel from the ensuing flame war what the issues were.

IMO, the whole era makes little sense without understanding what happened in 1955, the aims of the Revolucion Libertadora in that year and their context in the Cold War/Post WWII world, the proscription of the majority party, how this radicalised large sectors of the population throughout the 60s, and how real democracy was only allowed to return in 1973 on the condition that the radical elements be suppressed. There is a scene in the movie "Funny Dirty Little War" (set in the early Dirty War period, just before the '76 coup) where Peronists from opposing sides shoot at each other while yelling "Viva Peron!". Needless to say, foreigners tend to get confused when they see this sort of thing.