Emerging El Dorado: Steam Age Expansionism and the Social Worlds of Growth in Argentina

The scramble for distant riches has featured centrally in the history of the Global South-from the first forays of European imperialists to the recent fascination with emerging markets. In the mid-nineteenth century, fortune hunters turned their attention to Argentina, transforming it into a front line of an expanding West. While accounts of this period often emphasize impersonal economic flows, Emerging El Dorado demonstrates that this chase for wealth has a far more multifaceted, dynamic,...