Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780842028981)

Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas, is John Lynch's new edition of his 1981 book, shortened for classroom use. The figure of Juan Manual de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina in the first half of the nineteenth century. Charles Darwin, who met him on campaign against the Indians, described him as "a man of extraordinary character," the lord of vast estates and, for over twenty years, absolute ruler of Buenos Aires and its province. The book follows the career of Rosas as a classical caudillo, who rescued his people from fear and anarchy and delivered them into the hands of a great dictatorship. Leader of the gauchos, yet representative too of the powerful landed proprietors and cattle exporters, Rosas established an early prototype of a totalitarian state and employed systematic terror to defend his rule. Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas is an excellent scholarly and objective modern history for students as well as scholars on this powerful figure in Latin America.

Author: John Lynch
ISBN-10: 0842028986
ISBN-13: 9780842028981
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2001
Pages: 185
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.05w x 0.58d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 64