David Rock is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His Politics of Argentina, 1890-1930 won the 1976 Herbert E. Bolton Prize for Latin American history. He is author of Authoritarian Argentina (1993) and editor of Latin America in the Nineteen Forties (1994), both available from the University of California Press.

THE SPANISH SETTLEMENTS 15161680 1

THE RISE OF BUENOS AIRES 16801810 39

REVOLUTION AND DICTATORSHIP 18101852 79

THE FORMATION OF THE NATIONSTATE 118

The Economic Revolution 18521890 131

Boom and Collapse 18801890 152

FROM OLIGARCHY TO POPULISM 19301946 214

THE APOGEE OF PERON 19461955 262

A NATION IN DEADLOCK 19551976 320

THE NEW AUTOCRACY AND THE 367

Notes 405

Glossary of Spanish Terms 447

Select Bibliography 453

Index 489