Gauchos and the vanishing frontier /
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
c1983.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Who was the Gaucho?
- 2. The Pampa and frontier abundance
- 3. Gaucho to Peon: changing ranch labor
- 4. Women and family life
- 5. Material culture: housing, clothing, food, recreation
- 6. Latifundia and the ranching elite
- 7. Estanciero versus Gaucho: legal restrictions
- 8. Forced military service
- 9. Sheep, fences, and farming
- 10. Inmigration and xenophobia
- 11. Man to myth: literaty and symbolic images
- Appendix A. Population growth, Buenos Aires Province, 1778-1914
- Appendix B. Livestock and wheat production, Buenos Aires Province and Argentina, 1866-1914
- Appendix C. Changing composition of Argentine exports, 1822-1919.