Centro Editor de América Latina

"An overview of the history of indigenous peoples in Argentina, based mainly on secondary sources. Colonization, resistance, the 'conquest of the desert,' and the Chaco campaigns receive considerable attention"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Thoughtful examination of royalist intrigues and monarchist sympathies within the Argentine revolutionary elite just after independence. Segreti makes it clear that although the republican option was that which won out in the end, this was by no means inevitable, and many sincere revolutionaries regarded monarchy as an appropriate solution to the political chaos of their times"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Vol. I traces Jewish influence in colonial Argentina, and Jewish origins of many of the most illustrious Argentinian families. Pt. A (pp. 15-46), "España-Portugal-Brasil: La aparición del judío portugués", describes the expulsion from Spain, the forced conversion of the Jews in Portugal (1497), the ordeal of the Conversos at the hands of the Portuguese Inquisition (1536-1821), and the massive emigration, and sometimes deportation, of Conversos to Brazil. Pt. B (pp. 49-263) analyzes the Jewish presence in the Spanish Río de la Plata where Portuguese Conversos sought refuge from 1580,...

La idea de que la moneda y el mercado pueden relacionarse con lo social y solidario parece ir en contra del sentido común. Estas características resultan - para muchos - inaplicables a tales instituciones. Sin embargo, existen actualmente en el mundo un buen número de experiencias que logran tal conjunción.