The Generation of '80 was the governing elite in Argentina from 1880 to 1916. Members of the oligarchy of the provinces and the country's capital, they first joined the League of Governors, and then t
El General Roca ante el Congreso Nacional (c. 1886–1887) by Juan Manuel Blanes
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, author of Civilización y barbarie and key figure in the Generation of '37, later President of Argentina
Field in the Pampas region, which produced a vast quantity of Argentine exports under the policies of the Generation of '80
Ernesto de la Cárcova Sin pan y sin trabajo, 1894
The National Autonomist Party was the ruling political party of Argentina from 1874 to 1916.
Generation of '80
…Members of the oligarchy of the provinces and the country's capital, they first joined the League of Governors (Liga de Gobernadores), and then the National Autonomist Party, a fusion formed from the two dominating parties of the prior period, the Autonomist Party of Adolfo Alsina and the National Party of Nicolás Avellaneda…
Julio A. Roca, principal figure of the National Autonomist Party