The editorial institutionalization of the national history in Colombia, 1900-1918: a study of the National Library of History

The article seeks to reconstruct the conception and implementation of the National History Library as part of the institutionalization process that history writing experienced in Colombia in the first two decades of the 20th century. This company began as a private initiative to later become one of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Samacá Alonso, Gabriel David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:México
Institución:INSTITUTO PANAMERICANO DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA
Repositorio:Revista de Historia de América
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistasipgh.org:article/4312
Acceso en línea:https://revistasipgh.org/index.php/rehiam/article/view/4312
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:historia patria
Biblioteca de Historia Nacional
Academia Nacional de Historia
historiografía
historia de la edición
Colombia
National History
National History Library
National Academy of History
Historiography
History of publishing
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Sumario:The article seeks to reconstruct the conception and implementation of the National History Library as part of the institutionalization process that history writing experienced in Colombia in the first two decades of the 20th century. This company began as a private initiative to later become one of the fundamental projects of the National Academy of History. Through the compilation, preparation, and publication of documentary sources, as well as the dissemination of original research, the foundations for the scientific practice of history were laid. Based on some tools from the history of publishing, we argue that the formalization of historical knowledge in this northern Andean country was possible thanks to the editorial work that the State undertook to consolidate a vision of the past focused on the construction of the republican order above partisan differences. The official history elaborated from the Academy was not exempt from the administrative weaknesses, economic limitations and vicissitudes of a State in post-war times. The work is based on the study of institutional correspondence, personal documentation of one of the main editors of the Library, the volumes published in the first two decades and serial publications.