José María Rosa
Argentine historian and diplomat (1906-1991)
José María Rosa (August 20, 1906 – July 2, 1991), also known as Pepe Rosa, was an Argentine historian, one of the most notable of the Argentine nationalist revisionist historians.
Biography
Rosa was born in Buenos Aires in 1906. He studied law, later teaching history at high schools and universities. In 1938, he established the Institute of Federalist Studies in Santa Fe, studying the history of Argentina under a revisionist viewpoint. His view of the past was used to justify critics of contemporary country, and he considered that there was an ongoing neglect of national authorities of national interests since the May Revolution.
Those viewpoints, as well as the positive image of Juan Manuel de Rosas, were shared by all revisionists, but they were divided by the rise of Peronism. Unlike Julio Irazusta, who was anti-Perón, Rosa supported his government. His support increased when the Revolución Libertadora attempted a coup against Perón; he would join the Perónist resistance.
From there, Rosa started working on the history of the Argentine population, which he saw as potentially revolutionary at times, but always oppressed by the higher classes. He saw Perónism as a revolutionary movement, capable of promoting the delayed changes in society.
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