Between the Local and the Transnational: New Historiographical Approaches on Argentine Political History, 1930 to 1943

Abstract

In the last two decades, new scholarship has revised one of the most contentious
periods of twentieth-century Argentine history: the long decade of 1930-1943.
These years have traditionally been the focus of strong political, ideological, and
historiographical debates due, in great part, to their critical location as a hinge
between two other important periods. On the one hand, they represent the decline
and crisis of the liberal republic, established in 1853, marked by the impact
of the Great Depression in Argentina’s export economy as well as by the first
period of military rule in modern Argentine history, which began in September
1930. On the other hand, the transformations experienced during those years
have also been studied as the prelude to the rise of Juan Perón and his populist
movement, which began in full force with his participation in the military coup
of June 1943 and the ensuing military regime of 1943-1946.