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The life of Sarmiento / by Allison Williams Bunkley.
LIBRA 982L Sa74Bu
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bunkley, Allison Williams
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--Argentina--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino, 1811-1888.
- Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino.
- Argentina.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 566 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1952.
- Contents:
- Book I. The raw materials/ Hispanic man in the nineteenth century
- Personalism versus nomocracy; the Hispanic political conflict
- The childhood
- The education
- Book II. The commencement/ The shopkeeper
- The vortext
- The revolutionist and soldier
- The wanderer
- The new start
- The newspaperman and teacher
- The new fight
- Book III. The conception/ The exile
- The struggle
- The program
- The teacher
- The book: the romantic
- The book: El Facundo
- The exile of an exile
- Book IV. The confirmation/ Outward bound
- A broken idol: France
- The cradle of barbarism: Spain and Africa
- Italy, Switzerland, Germany
- The dream materialized: the United States
- A South American De Tocqueville
- The homecoming
- Duel with Rosas
- Book V. The construction/ The tyrant falls
- New targets: Urquiza and Alberdi
- The road back
- Campaign in education
- The battle
- Book VI. The consummation/ The people's choice
- The disowned diplomat
- The ambassador and his ideal
- The president: a program
- The president: the difficult years
- The president: the new caudillism
- Book VII. The counteraction/ The decline
- Twilight of an idea
- The fall
- The end
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-548) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bunkley, Allison Williams. Life of Sarmiento.
- ISBN:
- 0837123925
- 9780837123929
- OCLC:
- 784407
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