Incidentally, this essay in the book Region and Nation (eds. Brennan and Pianetto) is very important for understanding the failure of Argentine democracy.

As a part-time Americanist, finding this in a book on Argentina gave me the frights.

Economic history twitter -- are there any 'rough' sources that discuss infant mortality (0 to 1 years) by income groups in the United States from 1865 to 1900?

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Population density shows how Argentina was divided in two in 1869. A railroad was, however, being built to link Córdoba to the Paraná River.

Railroads would both give the Interior’s oligarchies a stake in globalisation, and allow federal troops to intervene to support them.

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Not that they’re desperate or anything.

As a student, Sven Lindqvist was one of my favourite authors. I love this detail from his obituary. theguardian.com/books/2019/jun…