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GASTON SANCHEZ, Emiliano. The press in Buenos Aires in the face of "the suicide of Europe." The outbreak of the Great War as a civilizing crisis and the resurgence of a national identity issue. Mem. Soc. [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.37, pp.132-146. ISSN 0122-5197.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.mys18-37.lpba.

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.

Palabras clave : periodical press; Great War; Buenos Aires; civilizational crisis; national issue; cultural history of the press.

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