The age of overseas discoveries and conquests: Alexandre Herculano’s Historia de Portugal termination, and Lucas Alaman’s Historia de México beginning
This article is aimed to contribute to the critical discussion about the general features of national historiographies written in Europe and America during the 19th century. As a hypothesis, I suggest that national historiography symbolizes the authors’ ideals of the political constitution of the na...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | México |
| Institution: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repository: | Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/70925 |
| Online Access: | https://moderna.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ehm/article/view/70925 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | historiografía portuguesa siglo XIX historiografía mexicana siglo XIX historiografía nacional estrategias narrativas municipalismo 19th century Portuguese historiography national historiography narrative strategies municipalism |
| Summary: | This article is aimed to contribute to the critical discussion about the general features of national historiographies written in Europe and America during the 19th century. As a hypothesis, I suggest that national historiography symbolizes the authors’ ideals of the political constitution of the nation state through their respective narrative components. In developing this approach, I make a comparative study of both national histories of Portugal and Mexico, respectively written by Alexandre Herculano (1810-1877) and Lucas Alamán (1792-1853). The analysis of the narrative place of “termination” or “beginning” assigned in each case to a “same” event —the conquests and overseas discoveries”— will reveal the ideological presuppositions implicit in the narrative decisions of both authors. |
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