Download or read book John Bull in Buenos Aires written by Jason Locke and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the vast amount of research on the Revolutionary period in Argentina, the British invasions, which happened just four years before the beginning of that period, have gotten consistently little attention. Part of the reason for this is that researchers are using the words of the heroes of the Argentine revolution. These sources have little, if anything, to say about what the human side of the British invasions, and primary and secondary sources alike minimize and gloss over the importance of these invasions. By examining British memoirs, diaries, and courts martial, an entirely different picture of Buenos Aires emerges. This picture challenges the picture implied by Argentinists, which posits revolutionarily patriotic portenos against imperialist Britons. Instead, the picture these sources reveal is one in which portenos treated the British as friends and even offered their protection. Furthermore, this thesis corrects the impression that the invasions were simple, by showing the complicated path to invasion, and shows how the invasions directly altered the political power structure of the city in a concrete fashion, which is something that Argentine sources - and the historians who ignore the British sources, often dismiss.