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Edition: 1
Release: 2006-02-27
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 080785669X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Civilizing Argentina pdf
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After a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis. This stark reversal, in a country rich in natural resources and seemingly bursting with progress and energy, has puzzled many historians. In Civilizing Argentina, Julia Rodriguez takes a sharply contrary view, demonstrating that Argentina's turn of fortune is not a mystery but rather the ironic consequence of schemes to "civilize" the nation in the name of progressivism, health, science, and public order.With new medical and scientific information arriving from Europe at the turn of the century, a powerful alliance developed among medical, scientific, and state authorities in Argentina. These elite forces promulgated a political culture based on a medical model that defined social problems such as poverty, vagrancy, crime, and street violence as illnesses to be treated through programs of social hygiene. They instituted programs to Download Civilizing Argentina for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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