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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Albarracín (February 15, 1811 – September 11, 1888) was an Argentine statesman, educator, and author.
In 1868, Sarmiento was elected to become the new president in place of the liberal Bartolomé Mitre.
Sarmiento proved to be a very harsh leader towards the lower class of Argentina, especially the Gaucho class.
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 Biographies - Domingo Sarmiento   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), educator, statesman, and writer, was president of the Argentine Republic from 1868 to 1874.
During this period, Sarmiento wrote Facundo, his scathing biography of Juan Facundo Quiroga, which advanced the idea that the forces of civilization must overcome the barbarism of Facundo, Rosas, and other caudillos.
In 1845, Sarmiento traveled to Europe and the United States under the auspices of the Chilean government to study and pursue educational reform.
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 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Albarracín (15 February 1811 –; 11 September 1888) was an Argentine (Argentine: Any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes) statesman, educator, and author.
During Sarmiento's presidency, the amount of students enrolled in school doubled and about a hundred public libraries were built.
He died in Asunción (Asunción: The capital and chief port of Paraguay) (Paraguay (Paraguay: A landlocked republic in south central South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1811)) and was interred in La Recoleta Cemetery (La Recoleta Cemetery: la recoleta cemetery is a famous cemetery located in the recoleta district of buenos...
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 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
SARMIENTO, Domingo Faustino (sar-me-en'-to), president of the Argentine Republic, born in San Juan, 13 February, 1811.
In 1829 he took part in the rising against Rosas and quiroga, and at its defeat took refuge in Chili, where he was successively clerk, school-master, and overseer in a mine.
In 1859 he was elected senator, and in 1860, as minister of public instruction, he influenced the vote of $100,000 for the establishment of schools.
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SARMIENTO, DOMINGO FAUSTINO [Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino], 1811-88, Argentine statesman, educator, and author, president of the republic (1868-74).
An opponent of Juan Manuel de Rosas, he spent years of exile in Chile, becoming known as a journalist and an educational reformer.
Bibliography: See Sarmiento's Travels in the United States in 1847, tr.
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The Argentine statesman, educator, and gifted journalist Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was known as the "Teacher President" for his unremitting efforts to foster education in his country.
Domingo Sarmiento was born on Feb. 15, 1811, in San Juan, an old and primitive town of western Argentina near the Andes, of humble, hardworking parents living in near poverty.
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 Oxford University Press: Recollections of a Provincial Past: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and served as President from 1868 to 1874.
Of his several autobiographies, the best-known Recollections of a Provincial Past is one of the indisputable classics of Spanish American literature, as well as one of the earliest autobiographies written in the Americas in Spanish.
Sarmiento presents his life as the triumph of civilization over barbarism; looking back on his youth, he measures his wealth and strength by the accumulation of enriching personal and political experiences.
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Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino (1811-1888), Argentine educator, writer, statesman, first civilian president of Argentina (1868-1874), and one of the...
Argentine literature, originally a derivative form of Spanish literature, took on a markedly nationalistic flavour in the 19th century.
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 Alibris: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
by Domingo F. Sarmiento, L.L.D. "Facundo" is a text about geography, sociology, politics, and history all blended together, as well as the clear preview of the government program of who would become the president of Argentina 15 years later.
by Domingo F. Sarmiento, L.L.D. This is the first complete translation of Domingo F. Sarmiento's Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism, a classic work of Latin American literature.
by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Nora Dottori, Silvia Zanetti
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 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino, 1811–88, Argentine statesman, educator, and author, president of the republic (1868–74).
Sarmiento's Travels in the United States in 1847,
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 AllRefer.com - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (Argentinian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (Argentinian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento[dOmEng´gO foustE´nO sArmyAn´tO] Pronunciation Key, 1811–88, Argentine statesman, educator, and author, president of the republic (1868–74).
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 Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino, 1811-88, Argentine statesman, educator, and author, president of the republic (1868-74).
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 Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
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 Table of contents for Recollections of a provincial past   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Table of contents for Recollections of a provincial past / by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ; translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Garrels and Asa Zatz ; edited with an introduction and chronology by Elizabeth Garrels.
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Contents Series Editor's General Introduction Biographical Note on Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Chronology of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Editor's Note on the Text and Translation Introduction by Elizabeth Garrels Select Bibliography About the Editor and Co-translator Recollections of A Provincial Past Bibliography Cited in the Introduction and in the Editor's Notes
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SARMIENTO, DOMINGO FAUSTINO Facundo o Civilizacion y Barbarie,,,.
SARMIENTO, DOMINGO FAUSTINO Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants or, Civilization and Barbarism, Collier, New York, First Edition, 1961.
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by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Michael Aaron Rockland, Ines Munoz
El Gran Sarmiento: Las Cartas Que Develan Al Hombre De Accion Y Su Intimidad (Spanish)
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