HILA 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Unitarianism, Secular Education, Multiracial
10 Apr 2017
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At once, a description and a prescription: it describes the phenomena of caudillismo and prescribes a liberal/unitarianist * view of development and modernity. Argentina and mexico: caudillismo dominates in wake of independence (in counterpart to brazil) Facunda = polemic against juan manuel de rosas. Liberal approach to knowledge and politics: consider sarmiento"s language, methodology, intellectual influences, and historical references. !1: wanting to get rid of the gauchos and bringing in intellectuals, etc. Monday, january 30, 2017: city > countryside, secular education > catholic education, central project as governor is to promote public, secular education. One of sarmiento"s gripes is that gaucho is a cowboy who runs around the countryside: sees this as a problem as the countryside population was so embedded with livestock, territorial, etc. Hence, they did not develop any technologies or anything to navigate the massive river systems: he compared these rivers to the usa and how they utilized/developed the.
