Benjamin Bryce is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Boundaries of Ethnicity: German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario (2022) and To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society (2018).

David M.K. Sheinin is Professor of History at Trent University and Académico Correspondiente of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina. His most recent book is The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations (2022).

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

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