Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism (Penguin Classics)

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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 remark, and Latin The united states’s most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin The united states, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835–1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life while it raises questions still being debated today—questions regarding the “civilized” city versus the “barbaric” countryside, the remedy of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization. Facundo’s celebrated and steadily anthologized portraits of Quiroga and other colorful characters give readers an exhilarating sense of Argentine culture in the making.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the most productive works during history and across genres and disciplines. Readers agree with the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and up to date authors, in addition to up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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