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Agustín Alvarez
1857–1914
A sharp Argentine essayist and educator, he wrote about politics, education, and social change with a moral voice that made him a notable figure of the Generation of 1880. His work blends public debate with big questions about how societies grow and govern themselves.
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La transformación de las razas en América
by Agustín Alvarez
About the author
Born in Mendoza in 1857, he became known in Argentina as a military man, educator, sociologist, and essayist. Sources consistently place him within the country's Generation of 1880, and note that he later held an important role at the National University of La Plata, where he taught and served as the institution's first vice president.
His books show the range of his interests: politics, education, ethics, history, and the development of society in the Americas. Among the works associated with him are South America, Manual de patología política, Ensayo sobre Educación, ¿Adónde vamos?, La evolución del espíritu humano, and Historia de las instituciones libres.
He died in 1914, but he remains remembered as a public intellectual who tried to connect ideas with civic life. For listeners coming to him today, he offers a window into the debates and ambitions of modernizing Argentina at the turn of the twentieth century.