MEMÓRIAS DE GUERRA: ENTRE COMEMORAR OU ESQUECER O IMAGINÁRIO DA GUERRA DA TRÍPLICE ALIANÇA CONTRA O PARAGUAI (1864- 1870) COMO DIFICULTADOR DO PROCESSO DE INTEGRAÇÃO DO MERCOSUL

Abstract

Today, there is no doubt that the “short-term” thinking is challenged by the increasing access to information technology of our time, the big data. It is precisely the ability to qualitatively use these organized and serial data sets, in time and space, that researchers can present new analyses and new paths to follow. This long historical duration temporality may suggest a different point of view from the ancient anthropological, economic, or other arbitration analyses of our society. It is not that historians hold a priori a long-term monopoly (longue duree), but sensitive to this analysis, in advance, they will necessarily be the most prepared to contribute and to operate in this perspective. A new thought about war, cultural heritage and military history is part of the current historical moment. In this sense, this article proposes, from the greatest war conflict that has already been registered in South America, to reflect on the practices and representations that, particularly, perpetuate in our collective imaginary which hinder the regional integration process.