Historical Research in Canada on Other Parts of the World / La recherche historique d’autres régions du monde au Canada

Abstract

For the period 1945-90, longstanding academic and popular narratives of Argentina have set the Cold War on the margins of important historical developments with only a few exceptions. The project that I am currently engaged in reassesses those narratives in two stages. First, it breaks down traditionally organized historical chronologies in Argentina to suggest poorly understood but crucial continuities across the decades. Second, and building on that historiographical shift, it proposes several avenues toward a new understanding of the centrality of the global Cold War to Argentine history.