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Más allá de una simple biografía: “el caso Cerruti” una historia conectada y multinivel enlazada por un “historiador electricista”

2019; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA MARIA; Volume: 26; Issue: 42 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5007/2175-7976.2019v26n42p270

2175-7976

Luciana Fazio,

History, Culture, and Diplomacy

The “Cerruti case” was a diplomatic conflict that took place at the end of the 19th century involving Colombia, Italy, France, Spain and the United States. Based on the biography of Ernesto Cerruti and analyzing its “micro”/“macro” dimension, this research will illustrate particular characteristics of the late 19th century, such as the consolidation of the Nation State, of the modern international system, of trade and of international financial system, migrations and imperialism). This paper aims to show: how a biographical study enables us to examine broad historical issues, how the “micro” is related to the “macro”, how connected history works, how contemporary historiography allows a different reading of the past and what means a multilevel study.