Sarmiento and His Argentina / / ed. by Joseph T. Criscenti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Baily, Samuel L.,; Criscenti, Joseph T.,; Donghi, Tulio Halperín,; Dorn, Georgette Magassy,; Goodrich, Diana Sorensen,; Jones, Kristine L.,; Katra, William H.,; Kristal, Efraín,; Lipp, Solomon,; McGinn, Noel F.,; Monti, Laura V.,; Piglia, Ricardo,; Rockland, Michael Aaron,; Ruggiero, Kristin H.,; Shumway, Nicolas,
• HerausgeberIn: Criscenti, Joseph T. ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

Reassessing Domingo Sarmiento as a writer, a thinker, and an advocate of both democracy and economic development, the authors add to our knowledge not only of Sarmiento, but also of a key transitional period in Argentina's development.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Sarmiento Revisited: Contradictions and Curiosities
• 2 The Old Order and Its Crisis as Theme of Recuerdos de Provincia
• 3 Civilization and Barbarism and Sarmiento's Indian Policy
• 4 Sarmiento's Views on the United States
• 5 Sarmiento and the Narrative of Failure
• 6 Dialogues and Polemics: Sarmiento, Lastarria, and Bello
• 7 Sarmiento's Vision
• 8 Sarmiento, the United States, and Public Education
• 9 "Woman" in Sarmiento
• 10 Sarmiento and Rosas: Argentines in Search of a Nation, 1810-1852
• 11 Sarmiento and Immigration: Changing Views on the Role of Immigration in the Development of Argentina
• 12 Artigas in the Writings of Sarmiento
• 13 The Failure of Modernization Theory in Nineteenth-Century Argentina
• 14 Reading Sarmiento: Writing the Myths of National Culture
• 15 The Legacy of Sarmiento's Civilization and Barbarism in Modern Argentina
• Selected Bibliography
• Index