Imperios de crueldad

Con motivo de la doble conmemoración de 1810 y 1910, Christopher Domínguez Michael entrevistó –para la revista Letras Libres y la serie de televisión La Conquista– a algunos de los más importantes entre los historiadores que, mexicanos y extranjeros, han escrito obras decisivas sobre nuestra historia: David A. Brading, Christian Duverger, John H. Elliott, Brian R. Hamnett, Friedrich Katz, Alan Knight, Enrique Krauze, Miguel León-Portilla, Rodrigo Martínez Baracs, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Jean Meyer, Guilhem Olivier, Hugh Thomas, Guillermo Tovar de Teresa y Eric Van Young.

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Repúblicas en armas pone en tela de juicio los presupuestos historiográficos que explican la fundación de las naciones a partir de las figuras heroicas de las guerras de Independencia, y muestra las complejidades y ambigüedades del proceso de emancipación en los países más tempranamente republicanos de Hispanoamérica: Colombia y Venezuela. El surgimiento de estas naciones no procede de un protonacionalismo de siglos y mucho menos de la rivalidad entre «criollos» y «españoles». Es, en su origen, la consecuencia del derrumbamiento inesperado de la monarquía hispana a raíz de la...