A renewed social history: reflections on the book by D. James and M. Lobato
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https://doi.org/10.34096/bol.rav.n64.17714Keywords:
social history, cultural history, memory, migrations, PeronismAbstract
Already the subject of numerous laudatory bibliographic reviews, which make the contribution of yet another review questionable, the book Paisajes del pasado by Daniel James and Mirta Lobato is examined through the lens of four dimensions that rearticulate its findings with the aim of reflecting on its contributions to Argentine historiography.
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