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An American Teacher in Argentina - Mary Gorman's Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas (Hardcover)
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An American Teacher in Argentina - Mary Gorman's Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas (Hardcover)
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An American Teacher in Argentina tells the story of Mary E. Gorman
who in 1869 was the first North American woman to accept President
Domingo F. Sarmiento's invitation to set up normal schools in
Argentina, where she eventually settled. An ordinary historical
actor whose life only sometimes enters the historical record, she
moved along the fault lines of some of the greatest historical
dramas and changes in nineteenth-century US and Argentine history:
she was a pioneering child on the US-Indian frontier; she
participated in the push for US women's education; she was a single
woman traveler at a time when few women traveled alone; she was a
player in an Argentine attempt to expand common school education;
and a beneficiary of the great primary products export boom in the
second half of nineteenth-century Argentina, and thus well
positioned to enjoy the country's Belle Epoque. The book is not a
straightforward, biographical narrative of a woman's life. It
charts a life, but, more important, it charts the evolving ideas in
a life lived mostly among people pushing boundaries in pursuit of
what they considered progress. What emerges is a quintessentially
transnational life story that engages with themes of gender,
education, religion, contact with indigenous peoples in both the US
and Argentina, natural history, and economic and political change
in Argentina in the second half of the nineteenth century. Because
the book tells a good story about one woman's rich and eventful
life, it will also appeal to an audience beyond academe.
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