Selected Writings of Andrs Bello [Paperback]

Andr??s 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, theSelected Writings of Andr??s Bello, edited by Iv??n 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. TheSelected Writings of Andr??s Bellogives us a generous sampling of a gifted thinker who must be included in any understanding of the origins and development of Latin America.

Available in English for the first time, the greatest essays and speeches of the 19th-century Latin American educator, politician, and scholar, a leading figure in building a humanistic post-colonial tradition in Latin America. --Kirkus Reviews

Andr??s Bello stands out as an intellectual giant whose projects and achievements are relevant to the whole of the Americas. --The Wall Street Journal

Iv??n Jaksicis Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
Frances M. L??pez-Morillas's many translations includeMedieval Heritage of Mexico and Spain, by Luis Weckmann andUnderstanding Spain, by Juli??n Marias.