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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Slatta, Richard W., 1947- Gauchos and the vanishing frontier. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1983 (OCoLC)558906294 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard W Slatta |
| ISBN: | 0803241348 9780803241343 |
| OCLC Number: | 8866701 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 271 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Who Was the Gaucho? -- The Pampa and Frontier Abundance -- Gaucho to Peon: Changing Ranch Labor -- Women and Family Life -- Material Culture: Housing, Clothing, Food, Recreation -- Latifundia and the Ranching Elite -- Estanciero versus Gaucho: Legal Restrictions -- Forced Military Service -- Sheep, Fences, and Farming -- Immigration and Xenophobia -- Man to Myth: Literary and Symbolic Images -- Population Growth, Buenos Aires Province, 1778-1914 -- Livestock and Wheat Production, Buenos Aires Province and Argentina, 1866-1914 -- Changing Composition of Argentine Exports, 1822-1919. |
| Responsibility: | Richard W. Slatta. |
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- Gauchos -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires (Province)
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- Grensgebieden.
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