Argentina

Following his re-election in 1952, Juan Peron was overthrown on September 19th, 1955.

Leslie Ray argues that politics and football have always been inseparable in the land of the ‘hand of God’.

Federico Guillermo Lorenz shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past.

Peter Beck looks back on the importance of Argentina's history.

The Argentinian writer Borges described the combatants in the Falklands War as being like 'two bald men fighting over a comb.' But thirty years before, Britain and Argentine nearly came to blows over territory far more remote and inhospitable.

The European images of Argentina are complex, and mirror profound debates about nationalism and universalism, popular and elite culture.

Peter J. Beck explores how Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands has involved diplomacy carried on by cartographic and philatelic means for 150 years.

The tango was to Argentina what jazz was to New Orleans. As Simon Collier explains, it swept the world in the pre-First World War era and Carlos Gardel was its star.