Julio Argentino Roca - Books

Books

  • General Julio A. Roca and his campaigns in the Pampa, 1878-1879, by Robert Carter Burns (1960).
  • Carlos Pellegrini and the Crisis of the Argentine Elites, 1880-1916, by Douglas W. Richmond (1989).
  • Soy Roca, by FĂ©lix Luna (1989).

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