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LEDESMA ALONSO, Ricardo. The age of overseas discoveries and conquests: Alexandre Herculano’s Historia de Portugal termination, and Lucas Alaman’s Historia de México beginning. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2020, n.59, pp.5-32.  Epub 21-Jan-2021. ISSN 0185-2620.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2020.59.70925.

This article is aimed to contribute to the critical discussion about the general features of national historiographies written in Europe and America during the 19th century. As a hypothesis, I suggest that national historiography symbolizes the authors’ ideals of the political constitution of the nation state through their respective narrative components. In developing this approach, I make a comparative study of both national histories of Portugal and Mexico, respectively written by Alexandre Herculano (1810-1877) and Lucas Alamán (1792-1853). The analysis of the narrative place of “termination” or “beginning” assigned in each case to a “same” event -the conquests and overseas discoveries”- will reveal the ideological presuppositions implicit in the narrative decisions of both authors.

Palavras-chave : 19th century Portuguese historiography; national historiography; narrative strategies; municipalism.

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