Emerging El Dorado

Steam Age Expansionism and the Social Worlds of Growth in Argentina

Eduardo Elena (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

415 Seiten

2026
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-42586-6 (ISBN)

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The scramble for distant riches features centrally in the history of the Global South—from the first forays of European imperialists to the recent fascination with emerging markets. In the mid-nineteenth century, fortune hunters turned their attention to Argentina, transforming it into a front line of an expanding West. While accounts of this period often emphasize impersonal economic flows, Emerging El Dorado demonstrates that this chase for wealth has a far more multifaceted, dynamic, and human history. In Argentina, it encouraged explosive growth across several fronts—financial, commercial, demographic, territorial. Capitalist routines of accumulation coexisted with get-rich-quick ventures, land grabs, and fraudulent schemes. Eduardo Elena's study profiles the promoters in Argentina and Europe who convinced others that this truly was a "rising country." At the same time, this book investigates the experiences of groups who helped propel expansion, such as migrant families and overseas investors, and those like mixed-race paisanos/as and Indigenous peoples who were deemed obstacles. By exploring these overlapping social worlds, Emerging El Dorado sheds new light on the roots of our present-day growth dilemmas.

Eduardo Elena is Associate Professor of History at the University of Miami.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.7.2026
Zusatzinfo	18 b-w illustrations, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-42586-3 / 0520425863
ISBN-13	978-0-520-42586-6 / 9780520425866
Zustand	Neuware