Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan after the 1944 Earthquake
by
Mark A. Healey
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
In January 1944, an earthquake reduced the province of San Juan, Argentina, to rubble, leaving perhaps ten thousand dead and one hundred thousand homeless. In The Ruins of the New Argentina, Mark A. Healey argues that the disaster and the massive rebuilding project that followed transformed not only...