La revolución de independencia

If we consider that the second half of the 20th century brought with it the professional consolidation of history in Mexico and in much of Latin America, a Mexican periodical publication, dedicated to history, which systematically covers the entire period (and even the present) becomes a privileged watchtower to evaluate the modulations of historiographical production in general. If to this interest we add the attraction of establishing a thematic bias, the exercise offers especially suggestive possibilities to observe trends, approaches and dialogues that, over the decades, have sedimented a peculiar way of understanding a certain past. And if that thematic bias is the independence process, the company could not be more suggestive and significant because it is one of the favorite and most prolific objects of study in Mexican and Mexicanist historiography. The historiography of the Mexican independence process allows, like few others, to evaluate impulses and cadences of interpretations, interests, and contexts.