Saturday, September 25, 2010

books about Argentina

Steve Abramowicz offers a list of books to read about Argentina:

  • David Rock's Argentina 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alphonsin
  • Iain Guest's Behind the Disappearances: Argentina's Dirty War against Human Rights and the United Nations
  • Gloria Lisé & Alice Weldon's Departing at Dawn: A Novel of Argentina's Dirty War
  • Nicholas Fraser & Marysa Navarro's Evita: The Real Life of Eva Péron
  • Paul H. Lewis's Guerrillas and Generals: The Dirty War in Argentina
  • Nicolas Shumway's The Invention of Argentina
  • Alicia Partnoy & Julia Alvarez's The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina
  • Robert D. Crassweller's Péron and the Enigmas of Argentina
  • Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number
  • John Lynch's San Martin: Argentine Soldier, American Hero
  • John Lynch's Simon Bolivar: A Life

I add a few more:

  • John Lynch's Argentina Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas
  • Domingo F. Sarmiento's Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism
  • Daniel K. Lewis's The History of Argentina
  • Lawrence Thornton's Imagining Argentina
  • John Lynch's Massacre in the Pampas, 1872: Britain and Argentina in the Age of Migration

I've found many of these books at the library & in Kindle format (for reading on my iPad).

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