ABSTRACT
The most inflammatory periods of Argentine history, the Rosas's Tyranny era has a wealth of dramatic potential when used as a setting for literary and cultural production. This, combined with an enduring cultural memory of Rosas as a brutal tyrant, has made it an attractive setting for several generations of writer. The prologue is to the edited collection of the scripts of the first instalment of the Bajo la Santa Federacin series. Blomberg became interested in the Rosas era around the same time as the intellectuals who would become the Historical Revisionists began to turn their attention to this period. The process of national organisation from Independence in 1810 and the ideological conflict between the Federalists and the Unitarians provides important historical contextualisation for an analysis of the liberal condemnation of the Rosas regime. Sarmiento's estimation, Buenos Aires was Argentina's only site of progress, civilisation, economic strength and European influence.
