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LOPEZ-AVALOS, Martín. Historiographic Practice and Social Sciences in Mexico. An App roach to Contemporary and Present History. LiminaR [online]. 2020, vol.18, n.1, pp.13-23.  Epub 15-Maio-2020. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v18i1.733.

The conditions behind the evolution of the study of history in Mexico throughout the 20th century are addressed. This review discusses the fact that the study of history is the result of a political, national, and international context, of historical processes that we define as a contemporaneity. This, in turn, reflects the way in which the disciplines within this study unfold in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration (hybridization). This process can be observed first with the emergence of sub-disciplines incorporated into historiographic practice —economic, social, demographic history, for example, or historical sociology— and then with the thematic fields that relate to current history as the newest stage. The review concludes by how this practice has been undertaken in Mexico in recent decades.

Palavras-chave : contemporary history; history of the present time; social sciences; interdisciplinary.