TY - BOOK ID - 67509143 TI - Sarmiento's travels in the U.S. in 1847 PY - 1970 SN - 0691046026 9781400870899 1400870895 9780691620916 9780691046020 0691620911 9780691046020 PB - Princeton, New Jersey DB - UniCat KW - Constitutional history, Medieval. KW - Middle Ages KW - Middle Ages. KW - Historiography. KW - Slavery KW - Travel / United States / General. KW - African American slavery KW - Slavery in the United States KW - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) KW - Montevideo (Uruguay) KW - United States KW - Montevideo KW - Ciudad de Montevideo (Uruguay) KW - MontevideĢu (Uruguay) KW - Description and travel. KW - Description and travel KW - Description UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67509143 AB - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), Argentine educator, statesman, and writer, self-educated after the model of Benjamin Franklin, was "not a man but a nation," in the words of Mrs. Horace Mann. Like De Tocqueville, this remarkable man visited the United States in its early years and wrote a detailed account of this new phenomenon.Full of shrewd social commentary and unique vignettes of the America of this period-of Boston, for instance, where Sarmiento met the Horace Manns and later Emerson and Longfellow-Travels should take its place among the important commentaries on the United States written during the last century by foreign visitors. Professor Rockland's introductory essay provides the broader context in which Travels must be seen: its place in Sarmiento's life and career and its importance as testimony to forgotten lines of influence between North and South America.Originally published in 1970.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. ER -