Historia y bibliografía critica de las imprentas rioplatenses, 1830-1852: 1830-1831

"Lavishly produced biography of the Argentine who carried the patriot cause to the interior provinces, Paraguay, and Upper Peru. Includes brief, thoughtful pieces on such topics as iconography, genealogy, economic and political thought, military organization, and Belgrano's relations with women"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

En el siglo pasado el termino "caudillo" aludia a quien detentaba un poder no apoyado en legitimos. Sin embargo, el protagonismo y la gravitacion en hechos fundamentales de la historia de nuestro pais los ha legitimado en una dimension imposible de soslayar. La indudable fascinacion que provoca su figura suscita las siguientes preguntas: ?Quienes fueron los autenticos caudillos? ?Cual fue la injerencia real en nuestra historia? ?Cuales fueron sus motivaciones profundas? ?Como vivieron? En Caudillos de la Argentina, Fernando Sabsay responde a estas preguntas y, en el tono calido y ameno que le ...

"Analytical study of the sculpture monuments and their location in the green public spaces of Buenos Aires from the perspective of the politicians, the artists, the work, the public and the critics. The author reflects on the historic components and their intended meaning of power in its diverse manifestations expressed in the public art examples throughout detailed descriptions, statistics, analytical tables, images and chronologies of the more than 400 monumental public sculptures"--Provided by vendor.

"An excellent compilation of texts by 31 Argentine political commentators and polemecists from the 1846-80 era. Authors include Mitre, Sarmiento, Alberdi, Echeverría, José Hernández, and Vicente F. López. In his preliminary study, Halperín Donghi notes that only Argentina realized a measure of the material and political progess to which the rest of the continent aspired - and this reflected in no small part the farsightedness of its political thinkers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.