Regional historiography in Mexico: Experiences and reflections on its practice
Abstract
In this article I systematize a few ideas about regional historiography in Mexico on the basis of the critique that has been made of it and of the reevaluation of some its concepts undertaken by practitioners. I do this with the intent not of coming to a finished methodological corpus (which does not exist for any field of historiography), but of presenting a contribution that might strengthen this field of study. This effort begins with the clarification of methodological concepts and theories, and involves the reflection on my own experience in this field. This is not an attempt to solve all problems, but is made in the hope of contributing to a continuing dialogue about the process of historical study. In the last three decades of the 20th century there were important developments in this way of doing historiography, but recently its methodological assumptions have been challenged.
Key words: historiography, region, Mexico.Downloads
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