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Author_Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
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Product details
- ISBN 9780195113709
- Weight: 422g
- Dimensions: 206 x 137mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Recollections of a Provincial Past is the best known of several autobiographies by 19th century Argentinean Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Local history books describe him as the second of three founding presidents of the Argentine nation. He remains one of Latin America's most influential writers as wellas one of its more controversial and contested political figures.
Elizabeth Garrels is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Massachussets Institute of Technology and a recognized authority on Sarmiento. Asa Zatz teaches translation at New York University and the City College of New York.
