templo y la escuela
Subtitle: los valdenses en el Uruguay
By: Roger Geymonat ; prólogo de Gerardo Caetano.
Publisher: Cal y Canto; OBSUR
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Montevideo, Uruguay
Language: spa
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Waldenses -- Uruguay -- History.; Uruguay -- Church history.; Uruguay -- Emigration and immigration.
Description: "A well-documented, impressively written study of Waldensian immigration to Uruguay.  Hardworking and pious without being fanatical, the Waldensians came to the Plata in the mid-19th century to escape the poverty of their Piedmontese villages, and proceeded to establish a series of prosperous agricultural colonies along the río Uruguay. As the author indicates, these settlements were models of social cohesion, where school and church played equal roles in everyday life"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-291).