Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism

Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism
ISBN-10
0520239806
ISBN-13
9780520239807
Category
History
Pages
291
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Description

An educator and writer, Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. His Facundo is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835-1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today--questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization.

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