1816-1870 1918-1945






Argentina 1870-1918



In the 1880es Argentina defeated the MAPUCHE amnd ARAUCAN Indios and established it's claim on PATAGONIA. Under President JULIO ARGENTINO ROCA, Argentine's economy flourished, as refigeration technology made meat export possible; the other dominant export crop being grain. Immigration from Europe (predominantly from Italy) picked up. Economic ties with Britain, the main consumer of Argentinian meat, intensified as Britons were also the main foreign investors in the country. The railway network developed.
In 1895, Argentina had a population of 3,945,911, 1,004,527 of whom were foreign nationals, to 49 % Italians, 19 % Spaniards.
A border dispute with Chile (1902) was solved peacefully. In 1904, an Argentinian expedition raised the nation's flag on the SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS (also claimed by Britain). During World War I, Argentina stayed neutral.






EXTERNAL
FILES 		Articles from infoplease : Argentina
Articles from Catholic Encyclopaedia : Buenos Aires, Argentina
DOCUMENTS William Eleroy Curtis, The other End of the Hemisphere, from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Nov. 1887, pp.893-910; Theodore Child, The Argentine Capital, from ditto, March 1891, pp.491-515; Argentine Provincial Sketches, in ditto, April 1891, pp.781-795; Bishop J.M. Walden, The Argentine People and their Religious and Educational Institutions, in ditto, May 1891 pp.863-872, from Cornell Digital Library Collection
Buenos Aires 1910: Memoria del Porvenir, from World Bank Group Archives, several hundred photos etc. from Buenos Aires 1904-1914
REFERENCE David Rock, Argentina 1516-1987, Berkeley : Univ. of California Press, revised edition 1987, 511 pp.
Jeremy Adelman, European Migration to Argentina, 1880-1930, pp.215-219 in : Robin Cohen, The Cambridge Survey of World Migration, Cambridge : UP 1995, KMLA Lib.Sign. 304.809 C678c
Article : Argentina, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1913 pp.1066-1070 on events of 1912) [G]
Article : Argentine Confederation, in : Statesman's Year Book 1878 pp.482-490 (on events of 1877) [G]
Article : Argentine Republic, in : Statesman's Year Book 1895 pp.322-332, 1898 pp.321-333, 1901 pp.379-391, 1905 pp.395-408, 1910 pp.571-580, 1918 pp.638-649 [G]
Article : Argentina, in : International Year Book 1898 pp.48-51, 1899 pp.59-63, 1900 pp.63-67 [G]
Article : Argentina, in : New International Year Book 1907 pp.51-54, 1908 pp.44-47, 1909 pp.46-49, 1913 pp.57-60, 1914 pp.56-59, 1916 pp.50-53, 1918 pp.48-50 [G]
Article : Argentine Republic, in : Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events 1886 pp.36-39, 1894 pp.26-28, 1902 pp.31-35 [G]



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