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Carlos Navarro y Lamarca
A Buenos Aires educator and historian, he wrote clear, ambitious books that helped introduce generations of readers to the history of the Americas. His work reflects a long dedication to teaching and to making broad historical subjects accessible.
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Compendio de la historia general de América. Tomo I
by Carlos Navarro y Lamarca
About the author
Carlos Navarro y Lamarca was an Argentine writer, teacher, and historian associated with Buenos Aires. Public-domain editions of his work identify him as Dr. Carlos Navarro Lamarca and describe his book Compendio de la historia general de América as the result of many years devoted to studying American history.
The prologue to that work says he was entrusted, while still quite young, with teaching this subject at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, and that he first prepared an earlier compendium for students there. That background helps explain the practical, explanatory tone of his writing: it was shaped by the classroom as much as by scholarship.
Today he is best remembered for historical works on the Americas, including Compendio de la historia general de América and Apuntes de Historia Americana. A brief author page on Spanish Wikisource also confirms that his original works are in the public domain because he died more than 100 years ago.