Del Hibervs a Carthago Nova

Se da la paradoja, en nuestros días, de que nunca ha habido más controversia en torno a la historia, o incluso obsesión por ella, para deformarla, negarla o reinterpretarla; en relación con los monumentos históricos y el contenido de los libros de texto; en forma de proliferación de comisiones de la verdad, museos y exposiciones, y sin embargo nunca ha habido menos inquietud por la "verdad histórica". La historia se ha convertido en nuestros días en un instrumento que cada cual moldea y esgrime a su conveniencia con el fin de blanquear o dar una pátina de seriedad a motivos muy a...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Tanto en la "cultura popular" como en el mundo letrado, México es determinante en las concepciones acerca de América Latina existentes en Estados Unidos. Por ende, su historiografía en torno a México constituye un lugar privilegiado para explorar los "imaginarios históricos" sobre América Latina en dicho país. Tales imaginarios adquirieron novedosas connotaciones hacia la década de 1960 debido al cambio de paradigmas políticos y culturales, que incidió de formas complejas sobre el mundo intelectual, por lo cual la historiografía estadunidense sobre México comprende un espectro de...