Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani

José Murilo de Carvalho (1939-2023)

Hilda Sabato — 2025-01-01

Homenaje - José Murilo de Carvalho (1939-2023)

Porteño freedman, black editor and frontier merchant in Santa Fe: the trajectory of Sandalio Escuti y Quiroga (1815-1872)

María Agustina Barrachina — 2025-01-01

The article traces the life trajectory of Sandalio Escuti y Quiroga, black editor of the newspaper La Raza Africana o sea El Demócrata Negro, which was published in Buenos Aires in 1858. It aims to analyze the Afro-descendants’ forms of political participation and integration as citizens during the central decades of the 19th century. In order to do this, it interweaves the traces left in newspapers, parish books, censuses, magazine lists, legal proceedings, and other governmental documentation of the provinces of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe. Firstly, based on the reconstruction of this individual’s life, it demonstrates that afrodescendants identified as a collective through shared experiences of militia and military participation, in addition to their common ancestry and color. Secondly, it highlights that after the Rosas regime was overthrown, some Afrodescendants circulated through different spaces, joining the political groups that were being reconfigured. They participated in armed forces and the press, which allowed them to raise complaints and discuss the meaning of republican equality. Lastly, it presents evidence of the integration of Afro- descendants from various backgrounds into different local communities during the period of national consolidation and their opportunities for social mobility.

Dal Riachuelo allo Stretto di Magellano. The Royal Consulate of Italy in La Plata (Argentina) between Fascist Rhetoric and Structural Problems

Bruno Cimatti — 2025-01-01

Fascist foreign policy was characterized both by rhetoric aimed at revitalizing Italian identity abroad and by a series of measures designed to strengthen the ties between Italian emigrants and their homeland. However, Italian diplomats faced not only their routine administrative duties but also new responsibilities and challenges –territorial, disciplinary, and budgetary– that jeopardized this intended mission.

This article delves into the case of the Royal Italian Consulate in La Plata –one of the largest Italian consular jurisdictions in the world– to shed light on how these principles were hindered and compromised in a specific geographic context.

State, roads and tourism in Tucumán (1932- 1943)

Carlos Martín Rodríguez Buscia — 2025-01-01

The objective of this article is to analyze the role of the National Road Directorate (DNV) and the Provincial Road Directorate of Tucumán (DPVT) in the production of tourist spaces in said province during the years 1932-1943. It is proposed that The actions of the national State were not comprehensive, which is why the DNV as an expert agency left loopholes in the execution of roads for tourist purposes, abandoning or not executing planning and/or projections proposed in Tucumán. In the absence of this, the DPVT would take over by erecting road infrastructure in spaces considered by public opinion and state actors to be tourist attractions par excellence, namely, the San Javier mountains and especially the Calchaquíes Valleys. Thus, it is proposed not only to examine a barely addressed subnational space, but also to investigate road traffic from an analytical scale that is little considered. To carry out this investigation, descriptive reports from the DNV and DPVT departments and other official documents such as regulations and written press of national and provincial level were listened to.

The political-economic crises and the problem of Argentine industrialization in the sixties

Aníbal Jáuregui — 2025-01-01

This article attempts to contribute to the debate on the historical evolution of the Argentine manufacturing industry based on the impact that the crises had on it. To do so, it studies the relationship between the crisis stage of 1959-1963 and the period of industrial boom that occurred between 1963 and 1975.

This crisis arouse when the industry sought to expand its place in the economy, when the strong military presence assumed the surveillance of the post-Peronist State and when a labor movement strengthened by the same industrial growth sought to defend the achievements of the past and to influence both the business world and public life. Under these conditions, institutions could not provide a safe channel for growth. Although the experiences of the constitutional government of Illia and the regime of the Argentine Revolution knew how to give impetus to the upward movement initiated by Frondizi in 1958, the industrial boom of the 1960s would ultimately prove to be intense and renovating, but at the same time a precarious phenomenon.

Historians and archives: initiatives and training around the management of documentary heritage

Claudia Salomón Tarquini — 2025-01-01

The concern in the historiographic field for archives has been gaining strength in recent decades, with the emergence of new technologies and the implementation of public policies aimed at the conservation of documentary heritage, among other factors. However, the participation of historians in this area has not been studied systematically. This paper begins an exploration on this topic based on two issues: the initiatives related to the conservation and access to documentary heritage and the content related to archives and documentary heritage in historians’ training throughout the country. My central argument is that despite the enormous efforts in the historiographic field to rescue, preserve and make available different documentary collections, the training to undertake these tasks is far from being satisfactory.

Reviews

Raquel Gil Montero — 2025-01-01

Raquel Gil Montero, Mario Graña Taborelli, María Macarena Ferreiro, Dení Trejo Barajas, María Elena Barral, María de Lourdes Ghidoli, Andrés Bisso, María Noel Álvarez.