Fiesta, memoria y nación. Ritos, símbolos y discursos, 1573-1830

La "Patria Nueva" de Augusto B. Leguia (1919-1930) sigue siendo el gobierno de mayor duracion en la historia republicana peruana. Tambien conocido como el "Oncenio", el periodo constituye un momento clave en el siglo XX. Sin embargo, aunque historiadores y publico en general asi lo reconoce, es poco lo que sabemos sobre aquella coyuntura. Y, peor aun, lo poco que conocemos responde, en gran medida, a la "leyenda negra" que comenzo a formarse tras su derrumbe en 1930, sino antes. A traves de estudios especificos - mas que desde la gran interpretacion - y movilizando diversas metodologias y...

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En los días de borrascas invita al lector un recorrido por los discursos e imaginarios sociales que se erigieron en la ciudad de Buenos Aires cuando reinó la epidemia de fiebre amarilla durante los fatídicos meses de 1871. Partiendo de fuentes primarias producidas en los ámbitos médico, periodístico, religioso y artístico, estas líneas intentan aproximarse e hilvanar esos constructos que tuvieron lugar en un contexto histórico anterior a los saberes contribuidos por la bacteriología moderna, donde la epidemia se trasformó en un nudo problemático para discutir aspectos que...