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General travel guides for Buenos Aires include Fodor’s Buenos Aires (2008); Lara Dunston and Terry Carter, Buenos Aires Encounter (2007), published by Lonely Planet; and Time Out Buenos Aires (2006). Examinations of daily life can be found in Jason Wilson, Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary Companion (1999); and Miranda France, Bad Times in Buenos Aires (1998). David William Foster, Buenos Aires: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production (1998), examines the cultural attitudes of porteños and the use of public spaces. George Reid Andrews, The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800–1900 (1980), provides a detailed account of this specific community in Buenos Aires. Charles S. Sargent, The Spatial Evolution of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1870–1930 (1974), analyzes the effects of transportation innovation on urban growth. An outstanding work on Buenos Aires’s urban poverty and its shantytowns is Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Old Age and Urban Poverty in the Developing World (1997). Javier Auyero, Poor People’s Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita (2001), considers the political practices of the Peronist Party and how they affect the shantytown dwellers in contemporary Buenos Aires. David J. Keeling, Buenos Aires: Global Dreams, Local Crises (1996), details the contemporary city’s engagement with globalization and neoliberal reforms.
The history of the city is covered in Stanley R. Ross and Thomas F. McGann (eds.), Buenos Aires, 400 Years (1982), a comprehensive collection of conference papers; and in Margarita Gutman and Jorge Enrique Hardoy, Buenos Aires: historia urbana del área metropolitana (1992). Daniel Schávelzon, The Historical Archaeology of Buenos Aires: A City at the End of the World, trans. by Alex Lomonaco (2002),explores the origins and development of the city with a special focus on ethnicity and gender. James R. Scobie, Buenos Aires: Plaza to Suburb, 1870–1910 (1974), is the classic historical analysis of Buenos Aires, chronicling the city’s transformation from a relatively small town to one of the world’s largest metropolitan areas. Urban political structures are examined by Richard J. Walter, Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires, 1910–1942 (1993, reissued 2002).
Various periods of the city’s history are examined in Ricardo Luis Molinari, Buenos Aires, 4 siglos, rev. ed. (1983); Manuel Mujica Láinez, Los porteños (1979), essential for cultural history; and José María Peña, Buenos Aires Yesteryear: A City in Pictures, 1854–1930, English version by Harold Sinnott and Flaviana Penna (1994), and Buenos Aires Yesteryear: A City in Pictures, 1910–1930, English version by Harold Sinnott (1984), mostly photographs, with texts in Spanish and English. Laura Podalsky, Specular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos Aires, 1955–1973 (2004), explores the middle-class transformation of the city during the period between the exile of Juan Perón in 1955 and his return in 1973. José C. Moya, Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930 (1998), examines migration flows during the height of the city’s foreign population growth. Issues of women’s history are detailed in Donna J. Guy, Sex & Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina (1991).