Las brevas maduras 1804 - 1810 Miguel Angel Scenna 208 pages - Hardcover - In Spanish Starting in 1904, and more markedly after the rejection of the British invasion, a subtle decay became apparent in the Spanish domination structure in the River Plate. Facts and ideas disrupt the quiet colonial environment, defining the unavoidable closure proximity. "The Brevas (early fruit of the fig tree) are ripening" -as Cornelio Saavedra so eloquently expressed- and will stand out fully seasoned during the week in May 1810. "Las Brevas Maduras" chronicles and explains this complex and fundamental stage of the Argentine past, at it's exact startpoint. This is the first volume of "27 Ensayos sobre Historia Argentina" a Collection directed by Prof. Dr. Felix Luna.
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The Collection is intended to expose a complete version of the Argentine history in a key and through a methodology that we believe new in the local historiographic scene.
As the intuition detects the connection between certain present troubles with lines that are rooted in the past, the hindsight into the origins of the community becomes key to its understanding
During too many years a feeling of a purposedly obscured truth hovered over Argentina, opening the gates to a large number of blows from the revision stance that, though helped to unmask many a phallacy, tended to exaggerate certain aspects of the conflicts and their outcome in order to satisfy partisan ideology and prejudice. However, these same exaggerations have also sparked the desire to establish firmer grounds for judgement.
To live one’s own history does not mean to set residence in the past. In Argentina history is part of that irritated introspection that Toynbee pointed out as a singular characteristic of the Argentine soul.
History folds contain the answers to some of the questions that permanently haunt the argentinians: Why is there a permanent violent element? Why are there so many and opposed ways to qualify those who have exerted violence? Which fatality imposes always a centralist government system when theoretically it is federal? Why popular leaders could lead just up to a certain point, and within limitations? Why the criteria of authority and freedom, those ying and yang of every organized community, have not found in Argentina a formula for contemporary citizenship mutual acceptation?; questions such as these only admit answers based upon the careful pondering of their historical precedents. A task that does not require specialists but the use of a relatively simple common sense judgement.
The purpose of this collection is to give a whole vision of the country’s past, along it’s independent years, in separate volumes each one comprising a relatively short period of the national chronicle. Each book deals with the politic outcome, the economic circumstance, the cultural and social context of the years discussed. There are no erudition boasts in these pages, but each line is backed by a research effort that can defy any discussion. The different authors have all adopted a lively, almost journalistic style.
This is a complete reconstruction of the Argentine history, each one bearing the particular character of its author, but everyone linked by a common way of looking at history: neither compromised by the classic vision nor biased by the revisionary stance. Both currents yielded positive results, and we now face a new history that does not exclude what has been part of the argentine evolution, but regards that evolution with the unrestleness and from the viewpoints of the argentines at the end of the XX century. History is no longer a humble servant to politics, nor tries to adjust facts to the bed of Procust of an ideology in order to accept what regards as convenient and discards what does not abide by its parameters.
However this is not a boneless exposition of facts. There is a core idea: the forming of a Nation as key and north of the historical process, and, in consequence, the main role of the people above anecdotes and names. There is also the intention to detect, in each stage, the elements whose projection have served to integrate the national community, both vertical and horizontally, in its political and geographic landscape.
This is, thus, esentially an objective history, but in the sense given by Edward Hallet Carr: "history acquires significance only when it establishes a coherent relation between past and future".
This Collection is certainly a History, but also a way to glimpse into the argentine future through the understanding and the love of everything relevant that sheds lights upon and identifies the Nation since its past.
Félix Luna Buenos Aires – March 2003
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