Antonio Carbone is a research associate at the German Historical Institute in Rome.

"An admirably concise and insightful study. . . Carbone bills his book as a materially grounded intellectual history of the liberal elites who regained control over the port city after the defeat of Argentina’s authoritarian ruler Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1852."

• Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Liberal Elites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Hygiene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Urban Space and Imaginaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Critical History of Elites through Urban Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Critical Junctures of Globalization: Park, Tenement,Slaughterhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Slaughterhouse: The saladeros and the Discussion on Industry . . . . . . . . 29Hygiene and Medicine: Disease and Industrial Pollution . . . . . . . . . . 31Saladeros between City and Country, Civilization and Barbarism . . 47The saladeros and the Question of Industrial Modernity . . . . . . . . . . . 68Slaughterhouse: Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Tenement: The conventillos and the Question of Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91The Invention of the conventillo: Hygiene between Private and Public 94Visualizing the City: Conventillos, Panoramas, and Urban Desires ofOrderliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107City of Neighborhoods, City as Totality: Concurring Imaginaries . . 120The Social Boundaries of the City: Philanthropy and the Elites . . . . . 140Tenement: Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1626 ContentsPark: Palermo, Elite Utopia for Buenos Aires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165The Park of Palermo: The City, the Nation, and the World . . . . . . . . . 166Palermo, a Healing Democratic Spectacle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Park: Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Main Archives and Libraries Consulted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Main Newspapers, Journals, and Periodicals Consulted . . . . . . . . . . . 221Primary Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Secundary Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Antonio Carbone is a research associate at the German Historical Institute in Rome.

"An admirably concise and insightful study. . . Carbone bills his book as a materially grounded intellectual history of the liberal elites who regained control over the port city after the defeat of Argentina’s authoritarian ruler Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1852."

• Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Liberal Elites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Hygiene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Urban Space and Imaginaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Critical History of Elites through Urban Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Critical Junctures of Globalization: Park, Tenement,Slaughterhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Slaughterhouse: The saladeros and the Discussion on Industry . . . . . . . . 29Hygiene and Medicine: Disease and Industrial Pollution . . . . . . . . . . 31Saladeros between City and Country, Civilization and Barbarism . . 47The saladeros and the Question of Industrial Modernity . . . . . . . . . . . 68Slaughterhouse: Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Tenement: The conventillos and the Question of Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91The Invention of the conventillo: Hygiene between Private and Public 94Visualizing the City: Conventillos, Panoramas, and Urban Desires ofOrderliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107City of Neighborhoods, City as Totality: Concurring Imaginaries . . 120The Social Boundaries of the City: Philanthropy and the Elites . . . . . 140Tenement: Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1626 ContentsPark: Palermo, Elite Utopia for Buenos Aires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165The Park of Palermo: The City, the Nation, and the World . . . . . . . . . 166Palermo, a Healing Democratic Spectacle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Park: Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Main Archives and Libraries Consulted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Main Newspapers, Journals, and Periodicals Consulted . . . . . . . . . . . 221Primary Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Secundary Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Antonio Carbone is a research associate at the German Historical Institute in Rome.

"An admirably concise and insightful study. . . Carbone bills his book as a materially grounded intellectual history of the liberal elites who regained control over the port city after the defeat of Argentina’s authoritarian ruler Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1852."

• Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Liberal Elites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Hygiene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Urban Space and Imaginaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Critical History of Elites through Urban Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Critical Junctures of Globalization: Park, Tenement,Slaughterhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Slaughterhouse: The saladeros and the Discussion on Industry . . . . . . . . 29Hygiene and Medicine: Disease and Industrial Pollution . . . . . . . . . . 31Saladeros between City and Country, Civilization and Barbarism . . 47The saladeros and the Question of Industrial Modernity . . . . . . . . . . . 68Slaughterhouse: Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Tenement: The conventillos and the Question of Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91The Invention of the conventillo: Hygiene between Private and Public 94Visualizing the City: Conventillos, Panoramas, and Urban Desires ofOrderliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107City of Neighborhoods, City as Totality: Concurring Imaginaries . . 120The Social Boundaries of the City: Philanthropy and the Elites . . . . . 140Tenement: Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1626 ContentsPark: Palermo, Elite Utopia for Buenos Aires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165The Park of Palermo: The City, the Nation, and the World . . . . . . . . . 166Palermo, a Healing Democratic Spectacle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Park: Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Main Archives and Libraries Consulted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Main Newspapers, Journals, and Periodicals Consulted . . . . . . . . . . . 221Primary Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Secundary Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228