(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-12-21) Peralta Ruiz, Víctor
This paper focuses on the study of the three interpretative paths that historian Alberto Flores Galindo developed in his analysis of Peruvian independence. It is argued that the double sensibility, academic and political, of this historian surfaced in his approach to issues such as the revolution of Tupac Amaru II, the Creole complicity in sustaining a counterrevolution of independence marked by social discrimination and the destruction of the project of an aristocratic and popular Andean utopia. Throughout this analysis, it is shown that the methodological trajectory of this historian was marked by the academic debates raised by the commemoration of the sesquicentennial of independence but also by the acute crisis experienced by the country in its process of democratic transition that led him to design and defend a leftist revolutionary option. Finally, it will be discussed to what extent the current historiographical knowledge on the emancipatory conjuncture reviews his interpretative essays.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-12-21) Espinoza, G. Antonio
In 1905, the Second Civilismo centralized the administration and financing of public elementary schools, as well as the appointment and supervision of teachers. The ideological factors that motivated José Pardo’s regime to take such action included nationalism and positivism, while one of its political motivations was to consolidate its power within Civilismo and over local powerholders. Among the circumstances that favored centralization were the availability of fiscal resources, and the support from some teachers. The consequences of the measure included an increase in the number of schools, growing enrollment, a growing number of teachers (especially women teachers), , the intensification of pedagogical renewal, and the consolidation of a new schoolteachers’ culture.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-12-21) Kagan, Richard L.
This article addresses the figure of Garcilaso de la Vega as a historian and the influence he exerted over the historiographic writing of his contemporaries, concretely the one of the general chronicler of the Indies, Pedro de Valencia. Thereby, this study will discuss the principal requirements Garcilaso considered when writing history: to tell the truth, to possess reliable sources and to transmit the voices of those who were born in the place one is writing about. These guides, in resonance with personal and political calculations, would eventually provoke Valencia to refrain himself from finishing his investigation of the history of the conquest of Chile.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-12-21) Mogrovejo Vidal, David
This paper discusses the social and cultural dimensions of the merchant’s upward social mobility in the Viceroyalty of Perú during the 17th century from the case study of Melchor Malo de Molina’s elite integration. This Spanish merchant arrived in Perú in the late 16th century and, in a few decades, became a prominent member of Peruvian society’s most exclusive circuits. I propose that his bonding and control over other prestigious families’ patrimony and the construction of a public image of nobility were key in his success.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-12-21) Sánchez-Albornoz, Nicolás
The following autobiographic note of the renowned historian Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz illustrates how life’s different vicissitudes carried him to the field of Andean history. In virtue of his book Trabajo y migración indígenas en los Andes coloniales’ presentation, this recount of the past invites to rethink the historian vocation. It tells us that the specialization pursued will not always be due to genuine personal or academic interests, but to different political, geographical, and temporal circumstances.