“The volume brings together scholars from Argentina, the United States, and Canada in different stages of their careers and from different disciplines. It successfully weaves a multifaceted approach to the study of a single moment in a single space, benefiting from a wealth of sources and disciplinary frameworks.”—María de los Ángeles Picone, H-LatAm
“The Conquest of the Desert brings together incisive essays that reevaluate one of the most significant and formative periods in Argentine history. . . . This book gives voice to the often forgotten or silenced Argentines of Indigenous descent.”—Carlos Riobó, author of Caught between the Lines: Captives, Frontiers, and National Identity in Argentine Literature and Art