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Barros Arana, Vicuña Mackenna, Amunátegui: The Historian as National Educator

1977; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/174703

2162-2736

Gertrude M. Yeager,

Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

During the latter part of the nineteenth century, three historians, Diego Barros Arana, Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna, and Miguel Luis Amunategui, came to epitomize a new sophistication which historical scholarship had attained in Chile. Taken together, the three men represent an important departure from previous romantic liberal historiography in that they were able to link Chile's past to its present without recourse to polemical rhetoric. More significantly, perhaps, these three scholars believed that history could serve socially useful functions. Much of their effort, consequently, was directed to making Clio a vital force for national development.