Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsín
David Rockis Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. HisPolitics of Argentina, 1890-1930won the 1976 Herbert E. Bolton Prize for Latin American history. He is author ofAuthoritarian Argentina(1993) and editor ofLatin America in the Nineteen Forties(1994), both available from the University of California Press.