In the past 30 years, the historiography of colonial Pampean agriculture showed a radical change. The “Bonaerense Campaign”, which was thought extensively devoted to cattle, was recently named one of the most important grain-producing regions of the Spanish Empire. This new hermeneutics of...

En un trabajo estimulante del historiador Françoise Guerra acerca de la socialidad o sociabilidad política revolucionaria en el Buenos Aires de 1810, es propuesta la hipótesis de que los cafés de la época, ante la ausencia de estructuras partidarias con programas generales, son lugares en...

Monographie réalisée par Denis Guigo, doctorant, pour le groupe "Technologies nouvelles en Argentine", GLYSI-CNRS (Groupe Lyonnais de sociologie industrielle).

Conocer la configuración del aparato productivo es esencial para entender el marco de referencia en el que se desenvuelven las empresas. El análisis de la estructura económica implica realizar una tarea de recolección y comprensión de información fragmentada y datos incompletos y...

This document was commissioned by the Environment Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the V Hemispheric Meeting celebrated November 30th, 2006.

Weakness is a quality frequently ascribed to Latin American states. This diagnosis proves faulty since it is possible to find resistant structures inside those states that perpetuate such weaknesses. This article shows that this is the case in regards to the police force of the province of...

En las grandes ciudades el impulso dado a diversas intervenciones urbanas ligadas al desarrollo de la economía cultural, ha transformado profundamente su estructura socio-territorial. A pesar de que desde un punto de vista físico estas actuaciones pueden presentar similitudes notables en unas...

This presentation discusses the IDB-RES project conducted in the neighborhood of Buenos Aires. This project was an opportunity to carry out in-depth studies throughout the region and contained true positive externalities including: interaction among research teams, with academic advisors and...

This article studies the evolution in land property distribution in the rural sector of Buenos Aires between the central years of Rosas government and the beginning of the liberal era, employing as its principal sources some economic censuses taken for fiscal purposes and some population lists....

Literature has long argued that the nation is a community, either “imagined”, ”invented”, or of “sentiment”. The existence of such a “national community” has strongly relied upon the assumption that members share –or feel/believe that they share-- something/s in common. It...