Resumen

GONZALEZ DE LEON HEIBLUM, Julián. Political Imagination and the New Imperial History: beyond the Nation-State and its Narrative. Hist. graf [online]. 2024, n.62, pp.323-366.  Epub 26-Ene-2024. ISSN 1405-0927.  https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi62.508.

“Professional” historians have used the nation as a framework to structure their analyses, which has elevated European History to the level of metanarrative. However, in recent decades, a group of historians and scholars from other disciplines, keen on studying empires, have significantly redefined several historiographical patterns. They have undertak- en this task with the aim of decentralizing history and comprehending the development of societies or peoples from a global perspective. To achieve that, they have proposed employing the concept of “empire” as a trans-historical and trans-geographical category. This article introduces the discussion of these scholars and suggests a new terminology for understanding empires as social actions that occur within specific material conditions and conceptual constructions. The objective is to demonstrate the breath of this new imperial history as a methodology that not only raises new questions but also expands our political imagination beyond the boundaries of the nation-state.

Palabras llave : New Imperial History; Postcolonial Studies; historiography; Nation-State; eurocentrism.