Revolution and Restoration

The question that still engages the attention of Latin American historians is the amount of real change that occurred with the achievement of political independence from Spain in the early nineteenth century. In this collection, historians examine the social, political, and economic history of Argentina from the onset of the Bourbon Imperial reforms of 1776 through formal independence, social disorder, and dictatorship until the foundation of the modern bourgeois democratic state in 1860. Argentina in this period was particularly influential in shaping broader Latin American political and intellectual currents, so that an examination of Argentina's situation has important implications for the Latin American republics.

Mark D. Szuchman is a professor of Latin American history and chair of the Department of History at Florida International University. The managing editor of Hispanic American Historical Review, he is the author of Order, Family, and Community in Buenos Aires, 1810-1860 and Mobility and Integration in Urban Argentina: Córdoba in the Liberal Era.

 

Jonathan C. Brown is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776-1860, and Oil and Revolution in Mexico.