Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Peard, Julyan G., author

Title An American teacher in Argentina : Mary Gorman's nineteenth-century odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas / Julyan G. Peard
Published Lewisburg [Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xi, 285 pages)
Contents Southwest -- East -- Sur -- Curumalán
Summary This is the story of Mary Gorman who, in 1869, was the first American woman to accept President Sarmiento's invitation to set up normal schools in Argentina. She lived a transnational and transformative life moving along Indian-White frontiers in the U.S. southwest and Argentina and participating in the early education of both countries. This book is based on original research and scholarly bibliography and accessible to both scholarly and general audiences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 25, 2016)
Subject Gorman, Mary (Teacher)
SUBJECT Gorman, Mary (Teacher) fast
Subject Teachers -- United States -- Biography
Americans -- Argentina -- History -- 19th century
Education -- Argentina -- History -- 19th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Americans
Education
Teachers
Argentina
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016030814
ISBN 9781611487657
161148765X