The real Argentine: Notes and Impressions of a Year in the Argentine and Uruguay

The real Argentine: Notes and Impressions of a Year in the Argentine and Uruguay

So many books have been written on South American countries within recent years that the addition of one more to the already formidable list calls for a word of explanation, if not apology. So far as American writers on the Latin-American Republics are concerned, many of their works are based upon the statistical returns of the respective Governments, or on topographical and historical data, easily obtainable at the public libraries. Others, more popular, but perhaps less valuable, are the hasty records of fleeting visits. These latter are so apt to be informed by a spirit of indiscriminate admiration that they present misleading and untrue notions of the countries described. The present writer may be stating what is already known to the reader, when he mentions that among both of these classes of books a considerable percentageperhaps the greater number of those published in the United States and in Englandhave been subsidised by the governments of the respective republics of which they treat. Many are but glorified advertising pamphlets, put forth in the guise of serious books the better to fulfil their office of propaganda. To look to them for any dispassionate and well-studied view of the countries illustrated in their pages, would be as natural as to expect the advertisement writer of Somebodys Soap to publish an entirely impartial opinion of the article he had been employed to advertise. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 64662
Author: Hammerton, J. A. (John Alexander)
Release Date: Mar 1, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English