Authored by two historians with specializations in the post–World War II era, Argentine history, and Latin American political economy, the Historical Dictionary of Argentina is the first new English-language work in this area of Latin American historical reference literature in 41 years. Features retained and updated from the earlier Historical Dictionary of Argentina, ed. by Ione S. Wright and Lisa M. Nekhom (1978), are a chronology for 1977–2018 and a significantly expanded bibliography, with sections on Peron and Peronism, the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo memorial protest, state terrorism, and the Falklands War. A website listing covers Argentine government sources, business organizations and political parties, and major newspapers and television channels. An added appendix on Argentine provinces gives total land area and population. Comparison of the contents with the previous work reveals a clear emphasis on adding detailed entries for significant individuals; business, professional, military, and political institutions; and political parties and agreements from the 20th century, with older entries for the 19th century retained selectively. Essential for all college and university reference collections.

Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

Choice Reviews

For someone who has spent over fifty years conducting research in Argentina and utilizing that research in teaching and scholarly publications, to spend time perusing this Dictionary is tantamount to releasing a sugar-dependent child unsupervised in a place like the Cafe Las Violetas. The satisfaction is immense: the pleasure of reading extensive, accurate, and well-written entries on the most important figures and events of Argentina history. . . . This is an outstanding scholarly source and certainly a most important source of historical information. Any scholar should be grateful for the contribution it can make to the historical accuracy of critical writing.

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