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Daniel James (historian)
Daniel James is a British historian educated at Oxford University. He received his doctorate from the London School of Economics. He is an expert in Peronism and the working class in Argentina. He is popular in Argentina as a result of his analysis of the Peronist government. His book "Resistance and Integration" is a landmark in the study of Peronism.
He was a history professor at Cambridge University, Yale and Duke University. He is since 1999 the Bernardo Mendel Chair in Latin American History at Indiana University. Daniel James has recently been appointed codirector of the Center for History and Memory at Indiana University. Daniel James and the Argentine historian Mirta Lobato are currently working on a new book.
Quotes
"In an important sense the working class [of Argentina] was constituted by Peron: its self-identification as a social and political force within national society was, in part at least, constructed by Peronist political discourse"
Books
Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946-1979. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Dona Maria's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2000.
Links
Juan Peron
Peronism
External links
http://www.indiana.edu/~lahist/IU_lahist_faculty_james.html
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