Independence Today. Reflections on a historiographical balance

• Main Author: Álvaro Acevedo Tarazona
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín 2013-07-01
• Series: Historia y Sociedad
• Subjects: Historiography; Independence; Hispanic Monarchy; modernity; political revolution
• Online Access: http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/hisysoc/article/view/41926/43653

In order to offer a panoramic vision of the Independence historiography, this article comments the most important bibliography on the topic. To achieve this, the article centre its attention on the studies that offer a general perspective of the historical phenomenon, without forgetting the deep and critical analysis of the hy- potheses, the methods and the approaches that characterize them. In its first part, it studies the works that criticize the traditional historiography paradigm ¿that one interested merely on creating heroes and memorable facts¿. In the second title, it examines the studies that emphasized the paper that played the first hispanic consti- tutionalism as the true key Independence mover.