La conformación de las identidades políticas en la Argentina del siglo XX. MARÍA ESTELA SPINELLI, ALICIA SERVETTO, MARCELA FERRARI, GABRIELA CLOSA (comps.): Córdoba: Ferreyra Editor, 2000.

Abstract

One of the traits that has marked the historiography of Argentina since the mid-1980s has been the reemergence of political history. Moreover, political history has been partially transformed by its integration with social and cultural history. This renewal of interest after the return of democracy in Argentina should not be surprising. Longstanding and massive political failure permitted the horrific military regime to seize power in 1976. Clearly, historians want to find the roots of that failure, but also to find elements of the political culture worth preserving. One cannot say that politics does not matter. Numerous well-done monographs and shorter pieces have appeared in recent years, focusing not only on the capital but also on the provinces. The work on the provinces has usually come in the form of chapters in collective works. This attention to the provinces is a welcome trend, since as so much of Argentine historiography has been Buenos Aires centered and as is obviously the case, the rest of the country is not the capital.