Buenos Aires : : 400 Years / / ed. by Stanley R. Ross, Thomas F. McGann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Aja Espil, Jorge,; Arocena, Luis A.,; Boorstin, Daniel J.,; Brown, Jonathan C.,; Etchepareborda, Roberto,; Forster, Merlin H.,; García-Godoy, Christián,; McGann, Thomas F.,; Ross, Stanley R.,; Scobie, James R.,; Socolow, Susan M.,; Szuchman, Mark D.,; Tulchin, Joseph S.,; Walter, Richard J.,
• HerausgeberIn: McGann, Thomas F.,; Ross, Stanley R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)

Buenos Aires has been called the Paris of Latin America, and the comparison is just, for in style of life and city design Buenos Aires resembles not only the City of Light but also the other great world capitals—London, Rome, New York. Buenos Aires: 400 Years attests to the long, diverse, and fascin...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Prologue
• Introduction
• I. The Historical City
• 1. Outpost to Entrepôt: Trade and Commerce at Colonial Buenos Aires
• 2. Buenos Aires at the Time of Independence
• 3. The Argentine Capital in the Nineteenth Century
• 4. Continuity and Conflict in Buenos Aires: Comments on the Historical City
• II. The Contemporary City
• 5. The Socioeconomic Growth of Buenos Aires in the Twentieth Century
• 6. Buenos Aires: Culture and Poetry in the Modern City
• 7. Buenos Aires: Today and Tomorrow
• 8. How to Know the City
• III. Two Final Perceptions
• 9. A View from the Provinces
• 10. A Porteño's View of His City
• Contributors
• Index