Selected Writings of Andr駸 Bello (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195105469)

Andr駸 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 Andr駸 Bello, edited by Iv疣 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 Andr駸 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.

Author: Andr駸 Bello, Frances Lez-Morillas
ISBN-10: 019510546X
ISBN-13: 9780195105469
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/17/1998
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.60w x 0.88d