Abstract
This article is an analysis of the historiography of the battle of Cerro Gordo. It is intended to see the generalities of the story, as well as the authors who wrote the subject, their enunciation horizons, the importance they give it and which ones are available to know the battle. At the end of this historiographic balance, it is established that some current works have reused an almost invariable narrative form, having as their origin a single story, which, due to its enunciation horizon, has set aside analytical views to the history of the battle. Therefore, to begin a historiographic reconstruction in the new military history, a methodological tool provided by historian John Keegan is proposed, called: “the piece of battle”, which consist of a series of critical-methodological concepts to detect simplifications of human behavior in war stories and specifically a battle tell.
Highlights
This article is an analysis of the historiography of the battle of Cerro Gordo
Lo anterior permitirá que explicaciones generales sobre la guerra entre México y Estados Unidos, y sobre quienes lucharon en ella, sean cuestionadas para dar paso a explicaciones de índole social y cultural con un carácter y sentido de individualidad de sus protagonistas
Josefina Zoraida Vázquez Vera, Héctor Cuauhtémoc Hernández Silva, México: ciesas, El Colegio de México, inaoe
Summary
Este artículo es un análisis sobre la historiografía de la batalla de Cerro Gordo. Se pretende ver las generalidades del relato, a los autores que escribieron del tema, sus horizontes de enunciación, la importancia que le dan y con cuáles se cuenta para conocer la batalla. Al final de este balance historiográfico, se establece que algunas obras actuales, han reutilizado una forma narrativa casi invariable, teniendo como origen una sola historia. Se propone una herramienta metodológica proporcionada por el historiador John Keegan, llamada: “la pieza de batalla”. Palabras clave: Historiografía, batalla, Cerro Gordo, guerra MéxicoEstados Unidos, siglo xix
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