Contra los lugares comunes

The book When we were Arabs is a declaration of principles. The complexity of our history requires postmodern approaches to recognize the liquid borders of realities such as Europe and Islam, especially if it is written from a European land where there was a time when we were Arabs.

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Con motivo de la doble conmemoración de 1810 y 1910, Christopher Domínguez Michael entrevistó –para la revista Letras Libres y la serie de televisión La Conquista– a algunos de los más importantes entre los historiadores que, mexicanos y extranjeros, han escrito obras decisivas sobre nuestra historia: David A. Brading, Christian Duverger, John H. Elliott, Brian R. Hamnett, Friedrich Katz, Alan Knight, Enrique Krauze, Miguel León-Portilla, Rodrigo Martínez Baracs, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Jean Meyer, Guilhem Olivier, Hugh Thomas, Guillermo Tovar de Teresa y Eric Van Young.

Este texto busca explicar el tipo de cultura política que construyeron los funcionarios de gobierno, las élites políticas e intelectuales colombianas entre 1886 y 1938. Muestra cómo algunos de estos líderes políticos y funcionarios del Estado, independientemente de su filiación partidista, defendieron la democracia como el sistema político ideal.