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Walter Seymour's polished and accurate prose is full of sharp and witty remarks that make him a perfect example of the travelling gentleman of the Victorian era, a sort of real life Phileas Fogg whose hand does not tremble when writing down impressions on the ways, manners, morals and South American politics -little has changed since--. Born on the 9th December, 1838, at Kinwarton, in Warwickshire, Walter was one of the five sons of Richard S...

EL CHE GUEVARA - La biografía328 pages - IN SPANISHThis most commendable biography by one of Argentina's sharpest politics analysts, based on the deep knowledge of the Argentine socio-political background from which the Che stemmed out, explains many of the guerrilla leader's attitudes and sheds a new light rekindling the hope that the Cuban people, throughout a process of gradual reforms, may regain its essential freedoms without sacrificing ...

CONFLUENCIAS 172 pages - IN SPANISH Dr. Felix Luna, the most prestigious Latin American history scholar, discusses the merger process of the Spanish and precolumbian American cultures. Crashes and conflict anecdotes are overlooked, and the Author focuses in what today constitutes the people of the Spanish America, unearthing the clues of the particular crossbreeding that underlies not only in the racial but also in the lingüistic, artistic, re...

Fracturas y continuidades en la historia argentina 376 pages - IN SPANISH Historical processes sometimes are activated by sudden changes, but are also integrated by permanencies, evolution lines that tend to be silent and work their way as persistent articulations of the collective life. With this approach Dr. Felix Luna, the most prestigious Latin American history scholar, shows that the Argentine history is a counterpoint of fractures and ...

BUENOS AIRES Y EL PAIS 172 pages - IN SPANISH Dr. Felix Luna, the most prestigious Latin American history scholar, narrates in a catching and fluid prose the difficult relationship between the port city and the inland Provinces of Argentina, highlighting the roots of the conflicts that nest deeply in the odd and bumpy socio-economic evolution path of the country that baffles analysts worldwide. This essay is the contribution of a remarkable...

564 pages - In English Bartolom? Mitre, in spite of his manifold occupations as politician and statesman, journalist and writer, worked strenuously the biography and significance of general Jos? de San Martin. His preface is dated at the jail in Lujan in March 1875, during his incarceration and trial accused of having led a rebellion against the national government. As a matter of fact the three volumes long final version appeared in 1887, an ...

Viajes por Europa, Africa y Norte América -1845/1847 Faustino Domingo Sarmiento Foreword by Juan Carlos Casas - (Author of "La Ingratitud de Sarmiento", ISBN 987-20506-8-6) 676 pages - IN SPANISH One of the most remarkable travel books ever written is undoubtedly "Travels through Europe, Africa and North America -1845/1847 " by the Argentine Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. At the moment of departing for Europe, Algiers and North America, the 34 ye...

Facundo - Civilizacion y barbarie Domingo F. Sarmiento Preface by Juan Carlos Casas, author of "La Ingratitud de Sarmiento" 266 pages - In Spanish Facundo is a text about geography, sociology, politics, and history -all blended together- as well as the clear preview of the government program of who was to become the president of Argentina 15 years later. The confrontation of two opposed conceptions about political power: uneducated autoc...

El Chacho - Ultimo caudillo de la montonera de los llanos Domingo F. Sarmiento 180 pages - In Spanish Domingo F. Sarmiento's book about general Angel Vicente Pe?aloza, the "Chacho", must be counted among the testimonies on the difficulties all too frequently encountered by "civilization" when, in the need to interact with "barbarism" , puts its civilised condition at stakes. In 1862, by the time Sarmiento was appointed Governor of the Arge...

José María de Pereda y Sánchez Porrúa is traditionally considered a traditional writer, perhaps because of the well-known recommendation made by Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo not to stray from the local issues of the Santander of yesteryear. However, when reading Sotileza "published for the first time in 1885" one suspects that this should not have been a diminutive piece of advice, but that the intention might have been to clear the field of acti...

Leopoldo Lugones El payador: the ultimate Martin Fierro textbook Leopoldo Lugones career as a poet and man of letters was undoubtedly hampered by his everchanging, but always passionate and sometimes questionable, political views. First an anarchist, then a socialist, finally a fascist, Lugones was a friend of Rubén Darío and the outstanding modernista poet of Argentina. His early volumes ( Las montañas de oro [the golden mountains] (1897), Lo...

La gaviota, the great Fernan Caballero Spanish novel, in a US printed edition Fern¿Caballero is one of the great XIX Century Spanish novelist, considered the first to introduce the realist novel in Spain. That alone would have granted the author a place among Spanish writers, but the fact that Caballero is a pseudonim behind which stands a woman, transforms the author into a novelistic character in her own right. Cecilia B¿hl de Faber's life i...

Clorinda Matto de Turner's classic novel in a new, annotated edition. First published in 1889, Aves sin nido drew fiery protests for its unsparing expose of small town officials, judicial authorities, and priests who oppressed the native peoples of Peru. Matto de Turner was excommunicated by the Catholic Church, burned in effigy, and forced to emigrate to Argentina. In 1904, the novel was published in an English translation as with a modifie...

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