2022
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Alfredo Ávila, « La historiografía sobre la independencia de México: un nuevo consenso », Araucaria, ID : 10670/1.d1b50b...
For more than a century, the historiography of Mexican independence had reached a consensus. There were, of course, debates, but the core of the interpretations seemed to be the same: the Mexican people, dominated by a foreign power, fought for their independence under the leadership of a group of enlightened Creoles, influenced by French and American revolutionary ideas. This consensus could not be sustained in the light of research on the social history of the colonial period. The 1990s saw the emergence of a new historiography that framed the process of independence in that of the Hispanic revolutions and approached the social groups that participated in that civil war. Although there is a plurality of historiographical themes and interests, a new consensus was built in the twenty-first century that, perhaps, should be broken as happened with the previous one.