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Sarmiento's Travels in the U.S. in 1847
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Sarmiento's Travels in the U.S. in 1847
Contributors:
By (Author) Michael Aaron Rockland
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
19th May 2015
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Social and cultural history
History of the Americas
Dewey:
917.304
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
352
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
482g
Description
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), Argentine educator, statesman, and writer, self-educated after the model of Benjamin Franklin, was "not a man but a nation," in the words of Mrs. Horace Mann. Like De Tocqueville, this remarkable man visited the United States in its early years and wrote a detailed account of this new phenomenon. Full of shr
