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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gardner, James, 1960- author.     Subjects     Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- History.     Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Intellectual life.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gardner, James, 1960- author.       by title:      Buenos Aires : the b...         MARC Display

Buenos Aires : the biography of a city / James Gardner. by Gardner, James, 1960- author. New York City : St. Martin's Press, 2015. Subjects Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- History.   Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Intellectual life. ISBN:  9781137279880 (hardcover) : 1137279885 (hardcover) Description:  xii, 258 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction: Buenos Aires as center of the universe -- Civilization or barbarism: the geography of Buenos Aires -- The founding of Buenos Aires (1492-1541) -- The colonial city (1542-1776) -- Buenos Aires, capital of the viceroyalty (1776-1810) -- Independence (1806-1829) -- Juan Manuel de Rosas (1829-1852) -- Buenos Aires, the big village (1852-1880) -- The Paris of South America (1880-1920) -- The city of the masses (1920-1946) -- The postwar city (1946-1983) -- The contemporary city. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In Buenos Aires, Art and culture critic James Gardner offers a colorful biography of the "Paris of the South," from its origins and time as a colonial city, through its Golden age, the rise of Peron, and the Falklands War, to the present day. With entertaining asides about art, architecture, literature, food and dance, as well as local customs and colorful personalities, this is a rich and unique historical narrative of Buenos Aires,"--Amazon.com.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 982.11 Ga Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 982.11 Gardner Checked In Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Nonfiction 982.11 Ga Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waialua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 982.11 Ga Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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