Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina tackles the meaning of "the nation" by looking to the geographical, ideological, and political peripheries of society.

0. INTRODUCTION 1. Cultural Pluralism Written in Stone: Ethnic Monuments in the 1910 Argentine Centennial 2. Modest Pleasures: Shopping and the Formation of the Middle-Class Consumer, 1913-1940 3. Questioning the Binary: Two Women's Tortuous Journeys to the Other Side of the Political Barricades, 1919-1946 4. The Mines of Trapalanda in Our Souls: Race, Space, and Myth in National Identity 5. "Nuestras Malvinas": Nation and Territory in Argentine Traveler Accounts, 1936-1971 6. Third World Argentina: Seventies Activism, Surveillance, and the Politics of National Comparison 7. The Year Censorship Broke: Public Criticism and the Cultural Battle for a New Argentina, 1980-1981 8. Sexuality, Citizenship, and Nation in Argentina's Transition to Democracy 9. The Congreso Pedagógico: Church, State, and Education in Post-Dictatorship Argentina, 1983-1991 10. EPILOGUE: National Imagination and Periodization in Modern Argentine History