The Slow Conquest of the Argentine Frontier: From the Subversive Gaucho through the Erasure of First Peoples to the Cold War Military Triumph over Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
• Main Author: Sheinin, David M. K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Canadian Historical Association / La Société historique du Canada 2021
• Subjects: hist; art; Argentine; Gaucho; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7202/1083627ar; http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1083627ar

This article assesses the shifting character of the Argentine frontier. Over time, Argentines have altered their understanding of the concept of a frontier. Two constants over the past century and a half, however, have been the popular notion of the conquest of Indigenous peoples as balefully incomp...