by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437609331
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«Facundo» (Civilization and Barbarism) is the sociological and political essay by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback.
A nineteenth-century Argentine work in which Sarmiento analyses the construction of the nation through the figure of the caudillo Juan Facundo Quiroga and the civil wars. The author contrasts urban and European civilisation with the barbarism he attributes to the countryside and caudillismo, and denounces the tyranny of Juan Manuel de Rosas.
464 pages. Part of the Letras Hispánicas collection (no. 323), edited by Roberto Yahni; 7th edition, published on 15 March 2005. The original work dates from 1845.
For those interested in Argentine history, nineteenth-century political thought and Hispanic American classics; commonly read in educational settings.
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.
