Organizing the Argentine Republic:
    Political Practices, Economic Change
    and State Formation
    in Buenos Aires and Argentina, 1820-1880
  Fragments of a Dissertation
    by Fred Murphy
Committee 
    on Historical Studies
    New School for Social Research
    ca. 1992-1996
(no longer in progress - that's all there is)
PDF format—requires Acrobat Reader
Chapter 1. State Formation in Latin America: Theoretical and Historiographic Approaches
Chapter 2. Approaches to Argentine State Formation
Chapter 3. Commerce, Cattle and Caudillos
Chapter 4. Liberals and Caudillos in the Post-Rosas Interregnum