| Selected Writings of Andrés Bello Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bello, Andrés (Author), López-Morillas, Frances (Author), Jaksic, Iván (Editor) |
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ISBN: 019510546X ISBN-13: 9780195105469 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $41.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1998 Annotation: Andres Bello was a towering figure in 19th-century Latin America, as influential and famous there as Thomas Jefferson in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of newly independent Lain American countries. This book gives us a generous sampling of a gifted thinker. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - History | Latin America - General |
| Dewey: 868 |
| LCCN: 96044127 |
| Series: Library of Latin America (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.6" W x 8.48" (1.05 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Andrés Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of newly independent Latin American countries. He held several key government positions, authored Chile's civil code, launched several periodicals, wrote prodigiously on a vast array of subjects, and implemented important educational reforms. Available here in English for the first time, the Selected Writings of Andrés Bello, edited by Iván Jaksic, gathers wide-ranging selections that explore such subjects as grammar and philology, constitutional reform, the aims of education, international relations, historiography, Latin and Roman Law, government and society, and many others. The Selected Writings of Andrés Bello gives us a generous sampling of a gifted thinker who must be included in any understanding of the origins and development of Latin America. |