The Board for the Extension of Studies and its Americanist projections: The Spanish cultural institution in Buenos Aires

Abstract

This article deals with the performance of the «Junta para Ampliación de Estudios» in Spanish America, particularly in Argentina. In 1914 was founded the Buenos Aires «Institución Cultural Española», on which the Junta's cultural policy was grounded. The archives consulted are those of the Secretariat of the «Junta para Ampliación de Estudios» and of the «Institución Cultural Española» in Buenos Aires, preserved in the «Residencia de Estudiantes», Madrid.