Historiography, Nation and Racial Changes in Colombia, 1853-1869

Through an indepth analysis of writings published between 1853 and 1869, this article demonstrates that the writing of history in Colombia was influenced by the modern-colonial experience of learned citizens.  From this perspective, the 19th century writers perceived and described a world in whi...

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Autor principal: Villegas Vélez, Álvaro Andrés
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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2014
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Acceso en línea:http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/memoysociedad/article/view/8164
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-019&d=article8164oai
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topic Writing history; modernity/coloniality; racials alterities; nation
Escritura de la historia; modernidad/colonialidad; alteridades raciales; nación
spellingShingle Writing history; modernity/coloniality; racials alterities; nation
Escritura de la historia; modernidad/colonialidad; alteridades raciales; nación
Villegas Vélez, Álvaro Andrés
Historiography, Nation and Racial Changes in Colombia, 1853-1869
topic_facet Writing history; modernity/coloniality; racials alterities; nation
Escritura de la historia; modernidad/colonialidad; alteridades raciales; nación
description Through an indepth analysis of writings published between 1853 and 1869, this article demonstrates that the writing of history in Colombia was influenced by the modern-colonial experience of learned citizens.  From this perspective, the 19th century writers perceived and described a world in which the racial characters, the singularities of the environment and the local customs, were the basic interpretative tools in order to understand the past modify the present and construct the future. This resulted in a historiography whereby the national territory, the person and the understanding of time, were fractured by the presence of inappropriate alterities.
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title Historiography, Nation and Racial Changes in Colombia, 1853-1869
title_short Historiography, Nation and Racial Changes in Colombia, 1853-1869
title_full Historiography, Nation and Racial Changes in Colombia, 1853-1869
title_fullStr Historiography, Nation and Racial Changes in Colombia, 1853-1869
title_full_unstemmed Historiography, Nation and Racial Changes in Colombia, 1853-1869
title_sort historiography, nation and racial changes in colombia, 1853-1869
publisher Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
publishDate 2014
url http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/memoysociedad/article/view/8164
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