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Living with Dictator Rosas: Argentina through Scottish Eyes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1997

IAIN A. D. STEWART
IAIN A. D. STEWART
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews
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Abstract

Whilst much illuminating research has been conducted into early British diplomatic and commercial activity in the River Plate, few scholars have yet focused upon the lives of individual settlers in any detail. The present article moves some way towards redressing this imbalance through the study of the Gibsons, a prominent Argentine-Scottish family with pioneering interests in commerce and sheep breeding. The analysis gives special weight to letters exchanged by the brothers Robert and George Gibson during the late 1830s, casting light upon the incomers' perspective of political turbulence as dissident forces fought to depose the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , February 1997 , pp. 23 - 44
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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