ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2004
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

This book by the noted Argentinian scholar Félix Luna is a model for a short book dealing with his country`s rather intricate history. There are numerous cross-currents that interweave themselves over a 200 year period and that still affect this richly endowed but troubled country. For instance, Argentinians are still divided over whether Buenos Aires should be the nation`s capital, and as recently as twenty years ago, the issue of moving it to the Patagonian city of Viedma was considered.

Instead of leaving the reader all tied up in knots, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ARGENTINIANS succeeded in wanting me to read more. (Unfortunately, most of the other Luna books I`d like to read haven`t been translated into English yet.)

Luna`s method is to treat the history of his country in a series of fourteen short essays with useful intros and occasional zoom-outs showing the situation in Argentina compared to what was happening at the time in Europe and the United States. He ties it all together in a fifteenth chapter that stops shortly after Juan Perón`s removal in 1955.