Selected Writings of Andrés Bello (Library of Latin America) - Softcover

Bello, Andrés; López-Morillas, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019510546X ISBN 13: 9780195105469

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Iván Jaksic is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
Frances M. López-Morillas's many translations include Medieval Heritage of Mexico and Spain, by Luis Weckmann and Understanding Spain, by Julián Marias.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 019510546X
• ISBN 13: 9780195105469
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Jaksic Iván