Andrés Bello Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Andrés Bello Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Andrs BelloScholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America\nAuthor(s): Ivan Jaksic\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521027595, 978-0521027595\nSynopsis\nThis book-length intellectual biography of Andrs Bello, first published in 2001, is the first to appear in English. Bello, the most important intellectual of nineteenth-century Latin America, made enduring contributions to the fields of international law, civil legislation, grammar and philology. He was also a poet of note, a literary critic and an influential statesman whose contributions to nation-building and Spanish American identity are widely recognized across the region. In this book, Jaksic provides an archival-based critical account that challenges the celebratory literature that has dominated Bello studies. He demonstrates how knowledge of Bello's contributions illuminate not only Latin American history, but also .

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