A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present [Hardcover]

InA History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities, and other groups that have traditionally been left out of the historical archive. He focuses on harmful aspects of Spanish colonization such as gender subjugation, the violence enacted in the name of the Catholic Church, the role of the economy as it shifted from the encomienda system into modern industrialization, and the devastating effects of slavery, violence, and disease brought to the region by Spanish colonizers. Adamovsky also discusses Argentina’s independence and territorial consolidation, the first democratic elections in 1916, military coups, Peronism, democratization and the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s, and many other facets of Argentine life up to the 2019 presidential election. Concise, accessible, and comprehensive,A History of Argentinais an essential guide to this nation.USInA History of Argentina,originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents a concise and accessible survey of over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history.Ezequiel Adamovsky is Principal Researcher at CONICET (National Council for Scientific and Technological Research), Professor of History at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, and the author of several books in Spanish.“A rich and ambitious work that covers multiple historical dimensions—from economic structures and sociopolitical processes to ethnicities and sexuality—Ezequiel Adamovsky’sA History of Argentinais a magnificent contribution to the English bibliography on Argentine history. In a landscape dominated by thematic monographs focused on short time periods, Adamovsky offers a conceptually solid and narratively engaging synthesis of currenló'