Books and archives on the Basques in Argentina

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Reference works on the Basques in Argentina

Marcelino Irianni Zalakain (UNICEN, Tandil), Historia de los vascos en la Argentina. He is the leading Argentine specialist.¹⁸
Óscar Álvarez Gila (UPV/EHU), an authority on Basque emigration to America; with Sanz Goikoetxea, works on the Delegation of the Basque Government in Buenos Aires.¹⁰
José Manuel Azcona Pastor, work on Basque emigration to America.¹⁹
Gloria Totoricagüena, Identity, Culture and Politics in the Basque Diaspora (University of Nevada Press, 2004).
William A. Douglass and Jon Bilbao, Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World (University of Nevada Press, 1975).
Magdalena E. Mignaburu Berho, Historia de la Federación de Entidades Vasco Argentinas (FEVA, 2006).

Colección Urazandi (Basque Government), volumes on Argentina: vol. 4 (Tandil), 6 (Rosario), 7 (Mar del Plata), 8 (Bahía Blanca), 9 (Buenos Aires), 15 (Euskal Echea, Llavallol) and 29 (Somos Vasco Argentinos). Downloadable from euskadi.eus.

Primary sources and archives: Argentine national censuses of 1855, 1869 and 1895; Memoria del Departamento General de Inmigración; the newspapers Euzko Deya (Buenos Aires) and Nación Vasca (1924-1998).