Los viajeros franceses en busca del Perú antiguo (1821-1914)

A partir del momento en que Francisco Pizarro y sus hombres revelaron al Viejo Mundo sus fastos y misterios, el Perú ejerció sobre Europa una fascinación que llegó a ser proverbial. A través de los siglos, la curiosidad provocada por esta lejana región nunca habría de disminuir, oscilando constantemente entre el ensueño poético sobre este imperio caído y las interrogantes en cuanto a la naturaleza y origen del hombre americano. Nacida en el siglo XVIII, la ciencia etnológica iba a lograr su verdadera dimensión en el siglo XIX, mientras que las grandes potencias industriales...

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A partir del análisis de las alteraciones ocurridas en el uso y significado de los conceptos, la escuela de “historia de los conceptos” se propuso alumbrar transformaciones históricas más vastas de larga duración, y especialmente el sentido de la mutación cultural que se produjo entre 1750 y 1850 (período que para Koselleck marca la emergencia de la modernidad). Por debajo de tan monumental obra subyace una teoría de la historia o Historik, a la que dicho autor define como una “doctrina de las condiciones de posibilidad de historias”. Los que aquí se presentan son textos...

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