Showing Facundo, or, civilization and barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Paperback. Pub Date: October 1998 Pages: 288 Publisher: Penguin Classics Written in political exile by one of Argentina's greatest Statesmen and Intellectuals. This WORK is ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga It is Over Return To Browse Another Search a complex and passionate investigation of the dialectic of civilization and barbarism. Sarmiento explores the impact of Argentinian geography on the life of the gaucho. chronicles the upinging and the often bloody political and military adventures of Facundo. and examines the reign of Juan Manuel de Rosas. the tyrannical ruler of Argentina at the time of Sarmiento's writing.