by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420603193
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Facundo, civilización y barbarie, is a sociological-political essay written in 1845 by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. In this work, Sarmiento analyzes the Argentine society of the 19th century, contrasting the European civilization with the barbarism of the rural areas and the caudillismo. Through the figure of Facundo Quiroga, a caudillo from La Rioja, Sarmiento criticizes the backwardness and violence that hinder the country's progress, proposing education and modernization as ways to overcome these evils.
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century Argentina.
