Recollections of a provincial past
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ; translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Garrels and Asa Zatz ; edited with an introduction and chronology by Elizabeth Garrels.
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books
| Originaltittel | [ Recuerdos de provincia. .] English
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| Utgitt | Oxford ; New York : : Oxford University Press, , 2005.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (lxxxiii, 290 p. ) : map, port. ;
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| Opplysninger | "Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) is one of the major literary and political figures of nineteenth-century South America. An indefatigable nation builder of post-independence Argentina, he is remembered for his zeal in modernizing the nation while serving as President from 1868 to 1874. Of his several autobiographies, the best-known Recollections of a Provincial Past is one of the indisputable classics of Spanish American literature, as well as one of the earliest autobiographies written in the Americas in Spanish.". - "Written in 1850 during Sarmiento's ten-year exile in Chile, the memoirs describe his childhood and adolescence in an Andean province whose customs were still those of a colony. Sarmiento presents his life as the triumph of civilization over barbarism and measures his wealth and strength by the accumulation of enriching personal and political experiences.. - Comparing himself to the newly independent Argentina, he claims to be a historically representative individual whose trajectory seves to illuminate contemporary South America."--Jacket.
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| ISBN | 1-280-53509-1. - 9786610535095
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