https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Argentina-s-complex-origins https://booksandideas.net/Argentina-s-complex-origins 2026-06-11T16:11:59Z text/html en Gonzague Espinosa-Dassonneville International nation Latin America 19<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century Argentina Cairn.info <p>Could Argentina, instead of being the modern country we know, have developed into fourteen independent states engaged in never-ending competition? From the “disunited province” of Rio de la Plata to the affirmation of a single nation-state, a new book describes a quest for unity that lasted five decades.<br class='autobr' /> Reviewed: Geneviève Verdo, Des peuples en mal d'union. Aux origines de l'Argentine (Peoples without unity: The origins of Argentina) Paris Flammarion, 2025.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Enigma-of-Peronism https://booksandideas.net/The-Enigma-of-Peronism 2018-03-05T08:00:00Z text/html en Humberto Cucchetti Politics International democracy populism trade unions Institut français Argentina <p>Peronism, a political and social movement, has structured life in Argentina since the 1940s, and has been emulated elsewhere in Latin American. But it eludes any precise definition. Neither a dictatorship, nor a democracy, this plebiscitary regime is based on the army and trade unions.</p>