7 Sarmiento's Vision

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Sarmiento Revisited: Contradictions and Curiosities 7
5. 2 The Old Order and Its Crisis as Theme of Recuerdos de Provincia 17
6. 3 Civilization and Barbarism and Sarmiento's Indian Policy 35
7. 4 Sarmiento's Views on the United States 45
8. 5 Sarmiento and the Narrative of Failure 51
9. 6 Dialogues and Polemics: Sarmiento, Lastarria, and Bello 61
10. 7 Sarmiento's Vision 71
11. 8 Sarmiento, the United States, and Public Education 77
12. 9 "Woman" in Sarmiento 91
13. 10 Sarmiento and Rosas: Argentines in Search of a Nation, 1810-1852 97
14. 11 Sarmiento and Immigration: Changing Views on the Role of Immigration in the Development of Argentina 131
15. 12 Artigas in the Writings of Sarmiento 143
16. 13 The Failure of Modernization Theory in Nineteenth-Century Argentina 161
17. 14 Reading Sarmiento: Writing the Myths of National Culture 173
18. 15 The Legacy of Sarmiento's Civilization and Barbarism in Modern Argentina 183
19. Selected Bibliography 195
20. Index 209