Keywords
Great War
Buenos Aires
civilizational crisis
national issue
cultural history of the press
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Abstract
This article will analyze the emergence of a series of reflections and representations of the role of Argentina in the face of the beginnings of the Great War, using a set of journals from Buenos Aires. Along with different alignments based on the empathy with some disputing countries during the early months of the conflict, it will emerge at the same time and in tension, although in a less emphatic way, a progressive distancing from the European education and the reinforcement of a national identity. Thus, the confusion caused by the outbreak of the war in Europe triggered a series of reflections on the place Argentina had in the world. It caused a gradual adjustment of national identity construction projects which considered some of the countries involved in a large military conflict as civilizational models.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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