Abogados en la frontera. Justicia y redes locales en el proceso de institucionalización del Territorio Nacional de La Pampa a principios del siglo XX

Abstract

Since the latest decades of the XIX century and the begimling of the XX, these agents modelled incipient social networks that allowed them to gain access to material resources in the new societies that were growth in the region and assumed an authority and independence leve! Which allow them to idealize their own social image becoming in "expert technicians" different from the rest ofthe population. This paper examines the rol that p!ayed the lawyers in the institucionalization process in the Territorio Nacional de la Pampa, would allow us to recognize !hose practices and strategies that this social group used to apply and adapt the government and organizational model though by the argentinian intelligence and, at the same time, to define curren! professional fields of lawyers.