Facundo: or Civilization and Barbarism by Mary Peabody Mann, Ilan Stavans, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Facundo: or Civilization and Barbarism

Mary Peabody Mann, Ilan Stavans, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

288 pages first pub 1845 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
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Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century.

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