This book proposes a general approach to the Argentine past. It is a true effort at synthesis that reconstructs the great avenues of a history in which politics, economy, society and culture are interwoven. The tour begins with the first human settlements thousands of years ago, and closes with the debates, conflicts and challenges that Argentina is going through at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century. This broad chronology unfolds according to four moments: the original populations; the colonial period; the process of independence and national organization; and finally the contemporary stage and the immediate past.
