Fernando Devoto, Marta Madero (Editors)
Historia de la vida privada en la Argentina, Tomo II: La Argentina plural, 1870-1930.
Taurus, 1999. 950511558X 364 pages.
Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 7.25" x 8.75", is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. Profusely illustrated.
Discussion of middle class family life in Argentina in the late 19th and early 20th century, with chapters devoted to, among other topics, the cafes of Buenos Aires, Italian neighborhoods of the capital, homes and gardens as the construction of domesticity, childhood in urban spaces, the opera and circus in turn-of-the-century Buenos Aires, and the development of consumerism between 1860 and 1940.