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The Argentine Republic Its Development and Progress
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Title: The Argentine Republic
Its Development and Progress
Author: Pierre Denis
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Language: English
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THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
BY PIERRE DENIS
BRAZIL
Translated, and with an Historical Chapter by Bernard Miall. With a Supplementary Chapter by Dawson A. Vindin, a Map and 36 Illustrations
Cloth, 15/- net. Third Impression
"Altogether the book is full of information, which shows the author to have made a most careful study of the country."—Westminster Gazette.
T. Fisher Unwin Ltd London
THE FALLS OF THE YGUASSU
Thirteen miles above the confluence with the Paraná. Like the Paraná at the Salto Guayra, the river cuts through a layer of basalt intercalated in the red sandstone. The forest of the province of Misiones has a tropical character near the river. The araucarias cover only the higher parts of the tableland.
Plate I.
THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC · ITS DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS
By PIERRE DENIS, D. es L.
Agrégé d'Histoire et de Géographie
Translated by JOSEPH McCABE
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD
LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE
First published in English in 1922
(All rights reserved)
INTRODUCTION
In the following chapters I have endeavoured to indicate the essential aspects of colonization in modern Argentina: the conquest of the soil by man, the exploitation of its natural resources, the development of agriculture and cattle-breeding, and the growth of the population and enlargement of the urban centres.
For a new country like Argentina it is not convenient to adopt the strictly regional plan which seems to be the best means of giving a complete and methodical description of the historic countries of western Europe, where it is the only way to keep in close touch with the geographical facts. In western Europe each region is really an independent unity. It has for ages lived upon its own resources; each population-group has its horizon definitely limited; and the complex action of the environment upon man, and of man upon the country, has proceeded in each district rather on the lines of an isolated and impassioned dialogue between the two. It is quite different in Argentina. There, many of the facts which we have to record consist in an expansion of the population, a spread of methods of exploitation from zone to zone of the country, and the influence upon colonization of commerce and of the varying needs of the markets of the world.
It may be well to reply in advance to a criticism which my Argentine friends are sure to make. They will complain that I have paid no attention to the people of Argentina, the creators of the greatness of the country. It is true that I have deliberately refrained from any reference to the political and moral life of the Republic, the national character and its evolution, the stoicism of the gaucho, the industry of the colonist and the merchant, or the patriotism of the Argentinians generally. My work is not a study of the Argentine nation, but a geographical introduction to such a study.
I began the work during a stay in Argentina which lasted from April 1912 to August 1914. In the course of these two years I was able to visit most parts of the country; and, as the information I gathered during my travels is one of my chief sources, I give here a summary of my itineraries.
October-November 1912: Rosario—Region of the colonies of Santa Fé—Forestry-industries of the Chaco Santiagueño—Bañados of the Rio Dulce—Salta—Jujuy—Sierra de la Lumbrera.
November-December 1912: Tucumán—Valley of Tapi—Santa Maria to the west of Aconcagua—Cafayate (Valley of Calchaqui).
December 1912-January 1913: Catamarca—Andalgala—Valley of Pucara—Córdoba—Villa Maria.
January-February 1913: Region of the Pampas (Province of Buenos Aires, south of Córdoba and of S. Luis, district of the Central Pampa).
March 1913: Corrientes—Posadas—Asunción—Forest-industries of the Chaco of Santa Fé.
August 1913: Region of the Pampas (Province of Buenos Aires).
March 1914: Lake Nahuel Huapi—Valcheta—San Antonio—The Rio Negro.
April 1914: Rioja—Sierra de los Llanos—San Juan—Mendoza.
July 1914: Entre Rios.
These journeys, by rail or on well-known roads, were not supposed to be for the purpose of exploration or discovery. Their one object was to enable me to make a provisional classification of the chief types of country and forms of colonization, and to draw up a methodical programme for more thorough research. The work which I trusted to do in a more leisurely way was, however, suspended in 1914, and, in spite of my very strong desire to do so, I was unable to resume it on the spot in 1919. I have therefore been compelled to publish my first observations, completing them, as well as I could, by a bibliographical study of the country. I have made use of some fragments of a popular work which I began, at the request of the Argentine Commission, for the International Exhibition at San Francisco, of which