Six and a half million Spaniards immigrated to Argentina from 1850 and 1930, making Buenos Aires the third largest city of Spaniards in the world, after Madrid and Barcelona. The author chronicles this wave of immigration, and offers a unique look at Argentinean cultural history through police records, travel books, poems, popular plays, and songs. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.