Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel De Rosas; Author: Lynch, John; Paperback

Author: Lynch, John
Latin American Silhouettes Series; Paperback; Endnotes, Bibliography, Index
184 pages
Published: April 2001
Scholarly Resources
ISBN: 0842028986

Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas is John Lynch's new edition of his 1981 book, which is now out of print.The figure of Juan Manuel de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina in the first half of the nineteenth century. The present book studies the forces which made and sustained Rosas, and examines through him the roots of the caudillo tradition in Argentina.Argentine Caudillo provides a detailed study of the use of state terror as an instrument of policy, one of the few such studies for any period of Latin American history. There is no book which duplicates this workeither inside Argentina or outside.Carefully preserving the identity of its predecessor, the new edition updates the background history and adjusts to recent trends in the study of the Rosas periodThe figure of Juan Manuel de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina in the first half of the 19th century. This work studies the forces which made and sustained Rosas, and examines the roots of the caudillo tradition in Argentina through exploring his career.