Description: We decided to inclunde this folder given the subject as the original groups in Argentina were kept in their traditional enclave. Their situation will not improve until a fair distribution of the land takes place in the country because their presence threaten the fair distribution of ...
Italo Argentina Colonización Compañía [1920s-1930s]
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Description: In the Patagonian region, the Compañía Ítalo-Argentina de Colonización (the Italian-Argentine Colonisation Company) purchased lands in order to build cities. The lands were bought to Manuel Zorrila and the company divided it in various plot and sold to Italian families. Italian inves...
Description: The Sociedad Italia Unita (the United Italian Society) was one of the first centers of general education created by the Italian immigrants in the 1870s. It was part of the Italian pedagogic commission summing up 1800 educational associations that were scarcely enough given the number...
Description: José Ingenieros (1877 – 1925) was an Argentine philosopher that followed the ideas of Positivism as developed by Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer. He was born in Italy-in the city of Palermo—and was an Italian immigrant who studied medicine thus enhancing the role of ...
Description: It is the Argentine most important sea-side resort. During the last decades of the 19th century the railways arrived and tourism started to flourish catering the upper class from Buenos Aires. Duringthe 1930s and definetly by the 1940s, both the middle sector and the working class s...
Description: Eduardo Mallea (1903 – 1982) was born in the city of Bahia Blanca, at the time it was the Southeast city in the province of Buenos Aires. He moved to the capital city of Buenos Aires and started to publish his first short stories. He became a well-known writer and wrote no...
Description: Balcarce is a district and city in the province of Buenos Aires situated west of the city of Mar del Plata. It was named after Antonio González de Balcarce (1774-1819) an Argentine military who became governor of the, then, province of Buenos Aires, and president (Director Supremo) o...
Description: Palermo is the largest neighborhood in the city of Buenos Aires. The name comes from the abbey San Benedicto de Palermos (Saint Benedict of Palermo) who was a much loved saint in the city of Palermo in Sicily. An alternative story is that the land was bought by the Italian immig...
Description: She was an Argentine poet who belonged to the elite.She wrote in French and received good critiques in France, in particular, her book of poems La Source. Extent and format of original material: Envelope