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Los embates del mundo actual no pueden explicarse sin el estudio de la historia y la historiografía. La presente obra hace comprensible la práctica historiográfica del siglo XX y las tendencias que se atisban a principios del XXI, analizando las principales corrientes que se han sucedido (desde la escuela de los Annales hasta la Alltagsgeschichte y la historia medioambiental) y relacionándolas con los futuros que esperaban quienes escribieron sobre el pasado. Asimismo aborda el estudio de las representaciones del pasado que configuran la cultura popular, la vida cívica y el discurso...

How did Spanish America influence the creation of an independent Brazil? In the six studies that this book contains, Joao Paulo Pimenta covers several points of contact between the Hispanic and Luso-American revolutionary processes in an attempt to show that the reciprocal parallelisms imply an erroneous separation of the two movements which are actually just one

Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.