<b>The text of this book is not available in this moment.</b><br/><img src="/Content/books/thumbs/13599.jpg" style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:25px;float:left"><u>Emancipation of South America</u><br><span>THREE great names stand forth conspicuous in the annals of America, those of Washington, Bolívar, San Martin. Of Washington, the great leader of the Democracy of the North; of Bolívar and of San Martin, who were the emancipators of the southern half of the continent. The story of the life-work of the latter of these two is the Argument of this book.<br/><br/>The scene of action passes on a vast theatre, a territory extending for more than fifty degrees of latitude, from Cape Horn to the Tropic of Cancer, and occupies twenty years of strife. The starting-point of this history is the Argentine revolution; it follows the course of this revolution as it spreads over the continent, and its object is to explain the laws which governed the establishment of a family of new Republics, and the fundamental principles from which they sprang. (from the Historical Introduction).<br/><br/>The author of the book went on to become the President of Argentina, serving from 1862 to 1868. Summary by Piotr Nater</span><div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />