Every one of them knows, however, that without their sincere disposition to speak with me extensively about Argentine history and their own personal histories over the span of three years, my book would lack one of the basic elements that sustains it. I omit their real names because their testimonies are a fundamental part of the subject studied in this book. I thank the disinterested collaboration that I received from all of the people I interviewed throughout my research. The University of Buenos Aires, meanwhile, gave a ubacyt subsidy to the research group I lead that made it possible to extend this research to new issues. In 2011, my entry as a researcher into the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of the Argentine Republic (conicet) allowed me to finish the fieldwork and devote the time to writing this book. McNutt and Kathleen McNutt Watson Graduate Fellowship and the Louise McNutt Graduate Fellowship, granted me by the College of Arts and Sciences (coas) of Indiana University. Its completion was possible thanks to the Paul V. Two Social Violence (1969–1974) 51 Three Armed Violence (1970–1977) 102 Four State Violence (1974–1982) 151įunds from Bernardo Mendel Endowment and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (clacs) at Indiana University enabled me to carry out the first trips to Buenos Aires, Correa, and San Miguel de Tucumán, between 20. I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions and to this end I have looked upon passions, such as love, hatred, anger, envy, ambition, pity, and the other perturbations of the mind, not in the light of vices of human nature, but as properties, just as pertinent to it, as are heat, cold, storm, thunder, and the like to the nature of the atmosphere, which phenomena, though inconvenient, are yet necessary, and have fixed causes, by means of which we endeavor to understand their nature.-Baruch Spinoza Political violence-Argentina-History-20th century. 4.

Argentina-Politics and government-1955–1983. 3. Middle class-Political activity-Argentina-History-20th century. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. The Argentine silent majority : middle classes, politics, violence, and memory in the seventies / Sebastian Carassai. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Carassai, Sebastián. © 2014 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ♾ Text designed by Courtney Leigh Baker and typeset in Quadraat by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. The Argentine Silent Majority Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventiesĭuke University Press Durham and London 2014

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