Studia Historica: Historia Contemporánea (May 2011)
Studia Historica. Historia Contemporánea. Recent history of américa Latin person. Introduction
Abstract
Though in the European historiography a corpus exists at this point relatively Wide on the topic, some disagreements persist on the category and His meaning: if it is a question scarcely of one more period in the historical chronology or If, on the contrary, we us would be refiriendo to a new form of relation with The past, precisely because this near past places the historian in one Peculiar position opposite to his object of study: the protagonists of the history They would be his contemporaries, he itself can be a witness participant of the events That he analyzes, process that it tries to reconstruct, to represent, to understand, To explain …, they are in march and, therefore, his conclusion is still uncertain; The sources where it waters are suffering an intensive morphologic mutation, and If on the one hand this promises the multiplication of resources where to investigate - foxgloves, Audio-visual or more or less conventional-, for other one not always it guarantees The access to the most pertinent documentation for the topic investigated (already be For legal, accidental or premeditated reasons).
