Buenos Aires
Subtitle: the biography of a city
By: James Gardner
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781137279880
Subjects: Intellectual life; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Buenos Aires as center of the universe; title: Civilization or barbarism: the geography of Buenos Aires; title: The founding of Buenos Aires (1492-1541); title: The colonial city (1542-1776); title: Buenos Aires, capital of the viceroyalty (1776-1810); title: Independence (1806-1829); title: Juan Manuel de Rosas (1829-1852); title: Buenos Aires, the big village (1852-1880); title: The Paris of South America (1880-1920); title: The city of the masses (1920-1946); title: The postwar city (1946-1983); title: The contemporary city.