Sarmiento’s Travels in the U.S. in 1847

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by  Michael Aaron Rockland

Sarmiento's
Travels in the United States
in 1847

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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of Michael Aaron Rockland,...SARMIENIOS TRAVELS
FROM IN THE UNITED STATES in 1847
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for the List of Illustrations, following p.34
1. A portrait of Sarmiento in 1845, shortly
before his visit to the United States
Source: Museo Sarmiento, Buenos Aires
2. Mary Peabody Mann, Massachusetts Historical
Society,(Boston(?)
3. Horace Mann, Massachusetts Historical Society
4. The Argentine Legation in the U.S. in 1865
Museo Sarmiento, Buenos Aires.
Museo Sarmiento is a governmental Museum.
If requests for permission arrive for
the illustrations from Museo Sarmiento, refer
to Prof. Rockland - he will clear with the
Argentinian officials
Inquiries for 2.and 3. refer to Massachusetts
Historical Society.
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Sarmiento's Travels in the
United States in 1847
TRANSLATION AND INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY
MICHAEL AARON ROCKLAND
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
1970
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Publication of this book has been aided by the
Rutgers University Research Council
and the Argentine Embassy in Washington.
This book has been composed in
Linotype Baskerville
Printed in the United States of America
by Princeton University Press
Princeton, New Jersey
For David, Jeffrey, and Keren

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction i
1. Sarmiento and the United States 6
2. Sarmiento's Travels 76
Notes on the Translation 107
Travels in the United States in 1847 113
I. A General Description 115
Avarice and Bad Faith l8l
Moral Geography 188
Elections 208
II. Travel Incidents 211
New York 211
Canada 228
Boston 240
Baltimore and Philadelphia 248
Washington 254
American Art 268
Cincinnati 292
Diary of Expenses 309
Index 317