{"id":33067,"date":"2015-10-07T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33067"},"modified":"2015-10-06T21:27:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T01:27:06","slug":"argentinas-colonial-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/07\/argentinas-colonial-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina&#8217;s colonial history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2015\/09\/the-wild-west-the-wild-south-and-the-pope\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Peters<\/a> on the history of Argentina during the colonial era:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 19th century in the Western hemisphere, two states fought a protracted series of wars to subdue their frontiers, the United States and Argentina. Others, such as Chile or Canada, saw lesser violence, but the great wars of conquest were directed from Washington and Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p>And the Argentine conquest appears to have been the crueler.<\/p>\n<p>Settlers in the Spanish territory that became Argentina faced Indian threats from the beginning, but as the population swelled and expanded its territorial claims, the violence grew more frequent and extreme, with Indian raids on settlers similar to those experienced on the American frontier. Finally, in 1833, Juan Manuel de Rosas \u2014 a man of great vision and spectacular brutality who would rule Argentina as dictator \u2014 launched his \u201cDesert Campaign,\u201d which pushed back the frontier to Patagonia. Still, Indian raids continued, on and off, as did minor punitive expeditions, until the 1870s saw the years-long campaign, the \u201cConquest of the Desert,\u201d that finally mastered all of Patagonia \u2014 which would become Argentina\u2019s agricultural heartland, facilitating a turn-of-the-century economic boom.<\/p>\n<p>Those wars saw a long list of massacres, atrocities, forced removals and the treatment of Argentina\u2019s aboriginal peoples as animals, rather than humans.<\/p>\n<p>When the Pope told Americans not to judge the past by today\u2019s standards, we thought of our \u201cTrail of Tears,\u201d or of the last, murderous drives to contain our Indians on bleak reservations. But the Pope saw mounted troops in Argentine uniforms hunting down natives like game animals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Peters on the history of Argentina during the colonial era: In the 19th century in the Western hemisphere, two states fought a protracted series of wars to subdue their frontiers, the United States and Argentina. Others, such as Chile or Canada, saw lesser violence, but the great wars of conquest were directed from Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,7],"tags":[492,1011,438],"class_list":["post-33067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-history","tag-argentina","tag-colonialism","tag-firstnations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Bl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33068,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33067\/revisions\/33068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}