Prologue

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Prologue xi
5. Introduction xv
6. I. The Historical City
7. 1. Outpost to Entrepôt: Trade and Commerce at Colonial Buenos Aires 3
8. 2. Buenos Aires at the Time of Independence 18
9. 3. The Argentine Capital in the Nineteenth Century 40
10. 4. Continuity and Conflict in Buenos Aires: Comments on the Historical City 53
11. II. The Contemporary City
12. 5. The Socioeconomic Growth of Buenos Aires in the Twentieth Century 67
13. 6. Buenos Aires: Culture and Poetry in the Modern City 127
14. 7. Buenos Aires: Today and Tomorrow 142
15. 8. How to Know the City 152
16. III. Two Final Perceptions
17. 9. A View from the Provinces 163
18. 10. A Porteño's View of His City 168
19. Contributors 183
20. Index 187