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Recollection of a Provincial Past (Paperback, New): Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Recollection of a Provincial Past (Paperback, New)

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento; Translated by Elizabeth Garrels, Asa Zatz

Series: Library of Latin America

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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and served 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 exile in 1850, 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; looking back on his youth, he measures his wealth and strength by the accumulation of enriching personal and political experiences. He compares himself to the newly independent Argentina, claiming to be a historically representative individual whose trajectory serves to illuminate contemporary South America.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Library of Latin America
Release date: April 2005
First published: March 2005
Authors: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Translators: Elizabeth Garrels • Asa Zatz
Dimensions: 208 x 139 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 376
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511370-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
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LSN: 0-19-511370-5
Barcode: 9780195113709

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