INSTITUTO "DR. E.RAVIGNANI"   24160
INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA ARGENTINA Y AMERICANA "DR. EMILIO RAVIGNANI"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
"Neutralist contrasts. Spain and Argentina at the crossroads of the Great War"
Autor/es:
MARÍA INÉS TATO
Lugar:
Newcastle
Reunión:
Conferencia; International Conference The First World War: local, global and imperial perspectives; 2015
Institución organizadora:
Centre for the History of Violence - School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
Resumen:
During the First World War, Spain and Argentina adopted a neutralist foreign policy, unaltered in spite of several diplomatic incidents with the warring nations. Nevertheless, in both cases civil society displayed a high level of political and cultural polarisation around the belligerent sides, dividing itself between two opposing and unbridgeable trends of opinion: the so called ?Alliadophiles? and the ?Germanophiles?. Both societies also undertook an active cultural mobilisation, expressed in press debates and in the battle for public space.               Moreover, the narrow ties that historically bound together Argentina and its former metropolis were brought up to date during wartime, and led to an intense circulation of ideas and intellectuals, that nourished the public controversies on the Great War.               Beyond these similarities and confluences, there also were remarkable differences between Argentine and Spanish societies, especially with regard to their public opinion?s alignments and to the transnational identities that fostered their solidarity toward the belligerent nations.                Considering these factors, this paper aims to offer an initial comparative approach to the First World War impact on both nations? cultural fields, and to contribute to the study of neutral countries during this conflict.