Foreword to Second Edition<br >Substantial additions to the Argentine bibliography together with the<br >political events since i963 require an updating of this socio-economic<br >interpretation of Argentine development. I have added new materials<br >to the final chapter， The Crisis of Contemporary Argentina， and have<br >included significant new works， events， and statistics in the supporting<br >sections.<br > Recent events in Argentina， especially when taken in the context of<br >rising discontent and disillusionment among laborers， students， and<br >average citizens， forecast continued problems and conflicts for that na-<br >tion in the 197o s. I am optimistic， nevertheless， that my conclusion in<br >the first edition-that Argentina stands on the threshold of a great fu-<br >ture-will eventually prove accurate. This leads me to hope that I will<br >be able to return in the next few years to the offen puzzling political<br >events of the past several decades and provide a synthesis of the post-<br >I93O Argentine scene that will somewhat revise this edition s emphasis<br >on the nineteenth-century formation of that nation.<br >Bloomington， Indiana J.R.S.<br >April， I97I<br > iIID-HUDSON LIBRARIES<br > 203 MARKET ST.<br > POUGHKEEPSIE， N. Y. 12601<br >