Textbooks: Malvinas and Antarctica to the “New Argentina” of Perón

Abstract

The investigation on the image of the Patagonia realized across the school texts narrowly  linked  to  the  pedagogic  offers  and to  the  political  intentions,  allows  to  identify a fan of representations translated in these terms: the indigenous and desert Patagonia, the petroliferous Patagonia, the tourist Patagonia resembled the Switzerland Argentina, to which the Patagonia adds as end of the Mother land that prolongs the Patagonian extension up to the Antarctica and Islands of the Atlantic Ocean South. Continuing the line of analysis, this article we deal with a particularly controversial claim and the issue of possession of Antarctica and the Malvinas Islands as an objective of state policy for territorial integration. That policy, in this case, refers to the period 1946-1955 which corresponds  to  the  presidency  of  Gral.  Juan D. Peron. The actions of this government on the  rights  of  the  southern  lands  were  part of  the  content  to  be  included  in  textbooks and such content simultaneously figured prominently to introduce the doctrinal principles Peronist.