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Author Shumway, Jeffrey M., 1968- author.

Title A woman, a man, a nation : Mariquita Sánchez, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and the beginnings of Argentina / Jeffrey M. Shumway
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Series Diálogos series
Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Contents Growing up in the viceroyalty of Buenos Aires -- Marriage -- The English invasions -- Buenos Aires in the age of revolution -- The struggle for independence -- The anarchy of 1820 -- Mariquita and the "happy experience" of the 1820s -- The tumultuous year of 1829 -- Mariquita and Juan Manuel part ways -- The Rosas regime under fire -- Mature exile and mature tyranny -- New beginnings and new ends
Summary In 1837 Mariquita Sánchez de Mendeville was so fed up with governor Juan Manuel de Rosas that she chose to leave her beloved city of Buenos Aires. Leaving was especially hard because Mariquita felt that she had played an influential role in transforming Buenos Aires from a Spanish colonial outpost into a brilliant capital in a world of republics. Juan Manuel de Rosas's version of order alienated Mariquita, who chose self-imposed exile in Montevideo over living under Rosas's stifling rule. The struggle went on for nearly two decades until Mariquita finally came home for good in 1852 while Rosas went into exile. Mariquita's and Juan Manuel's lives corresponded with the major events and processes that shaped the turbulent beginnings of the Argentine nation, many of which also shaped Latin America and the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolution (1750-1850). Their lives provide an overarching narrative for Argentine history that both scholars and students will find intriguing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-321) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sánchez, Mariquita, 1786-1868.
Rosas, Juan Manuel de, 1793-1877.
SUBJECT Rosas, Juan Manuel de, 1793-1877 fast
Sánchez, Mariquita, 1786-1868 fast
Argentina -- History -- To 1810. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007037
Subject Argentina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826360915
0826360912