Robert a potash 1921 2016 (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. xiv+418 pages with tables, plates, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The second volume of Potash's trilogy, The Army and Politics in Argentina, 19451962: Perón to Frondizi, was published in 1980. It was marked by the same careful scholarship and archival research that had characterized his book on the Banco de Avío. It also had two features that were up to then relatively uncommon in the writing of Argentine political history. One was the extensive use of oral interviews of major military and civilian political figures interwoven into the text. Another was a reliance on US diplomatic reports on Argentina found at the US National Archives for insights into internal political developments given the unavailability of (or difficulty of access to) manuscript sources in that country. In this volume, then, could be seen the influence of Potash's own military experiences as well as his exposure to the records of the State Department and firsthand. Condition: Jacket spine head corners chipped, lightly soiled else better than very good in like jacket.…