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date: 27 April 2025

Argentine Intellectual Circles and the European Crisis of the 1930slocked

Argentine Intellectual Circles and the European Crisis of the 1930slocked

  • Jorge NállimJorge NállimDepartment of History, University of Manitoba

Summary

Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, Argentina became closely linked to the North Atlantic world, as the founding fathers of the modern state established a political order modeled on liberal principles, developed a dynamic export economy, and presided over a large immigration—mainly from Spain and Italy. These processes provided the historical framework for the impact of the European crisis of the interwar years in Argentine cultural groups and debates in the 1930s. The cosmopolitan features of Argentine society and intellectual groups, the country’s political crisis in the 1930s, and the particularly heavy influence of the Spanish Civil War explain how the European situation and ideologies such as Fascism and anti-Fascism were processed in a variety of cultural publications and institutions.

Subjects

  • History of Southern Spanish America
  • History of Latin America and the Oceanic World
  • 1910–1945

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