Argentina and the United States : an alliance contained / David M.K. Sheinin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sheinin, David.

Series:

• United States and the Americas.
• The United States and the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• United States--Relations--Argentina.
• Argentina--Relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sheinin draws on both Spanish- and English-language sources to provide a broad perspective on the two centuries of shared U.S.-Argentine history with fresh focus in particular on cultural ties, nuclear politics in the cold war era, the politics of human rights, and Argentina's exit in 1991 from the nonaligned movement.

Contents:

• Trade, progress, and nation building, 1800-1880
• Pan-Americanism, world war, and the Bolshevik menace, 1880-1923
• Sanitary embargo, cultural connections, and wartime neutrality, 1924-1946
• Cold war and the end of Argentine democracy, 1947-1961
• The sixties : military ties, economic uncertainties
• Descent to dictatorship, 1970-1983
• The forging of a new relationship, 1984-1999
• Epilogue : the crash of 2001 and beyond.

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-266) and index.

ISBN:

• 9786612642883
• 9781282642881
• 128264288X
• 9780820337296
• 0820337293

OCLC:

646069070