The OOW Memorial was made a tribute to the victims of the internal armed conflict in Peru (1980-2000). He is the work of artist Lika Mutal in coordination with various human rights activists and is a continuation of the work carried out by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). The anniversa...

In the context of postmodernism, history writing has become a crucial issue. Called “epistemological turn” by historians and “metahistorical fiction” by writers, such a tendency is the proof of a “metahistorical awareness” which arises nowadays in Western societies as a whole, inviting to consider h...

Intellectual peasant, political leader and founder of the militia of Ocros in the 1980s, the Zorro is an emblematic figure of the vicissitudes and ambiguities intrinsic to the internal armed conflict. The heroic narrative he built of himself and its role in this period articulates political and reli...

On 3 July 2008, a monument to the victims of the Peruvian internal armed conflict was inaugurated in the rural community of Llinque (Apurímac). This article analyses how the communes of Llinque evoke and build the past in the present and through this monument. In the face of the official history of...

The study of the memories, writings and works of two 20th-century Spanish painters, Maruja Mallo and Amalia Avia, the first of which was trained during the Spanish Republic and the second during the Civil War, together with the analysis of the historical, political and social context in which they l...

This is the first presentation of a document which has remained hidden for a century and a half and which has the dual character of historical memory and poem gauchesco. Written by José Rivas, landscape of the southern Sandtafesino, supposedly in the 1850s, the text is stifling the memories of soldi...

This paper analyses the construction of a master narrative about the memory of the Spanish «Blue Division» from the end of the Second World War to the present day. The first part examines the factors underlying the social framework from which the Blue Division evolved, such as the need for the Franc...

The study of the memories, papers and works of two Spanish painters of the twentieth century, Maruja Mallo and Amalia Avia, the first formed during the second Spanish Republic and the second after the Civil War, together with an analysis of the historical, political and social context in which they...

The 1940s, together with the civil war years, may be regarded as one of the most difficult and challenging periods for Spanish society in the whole of the twentieth century. Not only because it was a divided society, marked by the deep rift occasioned by war, exile and repression, but also because o...

Wars are extreme events that let a mark on the societies that lived them as a whole, and primarily on those who survived, the civilians and military that fought in them. To the ex-combatants, war experience is a landmark in their lives since it is an extreme experience in which the option kill and/o...

.This article presents a state of art about the memories that literature and testimonial poetic have built on the ecologies infestation characterised by political violence and armed conflict. The stocktaking exercise shows how understanding of the conditions in which boys and girls shape their subje...

La Guerra Federal fue la contienda bélica que involucró a los habitantes del territorio venezolano entre 1859 y 1863. Este acontecimiento histórico marca de forma decisiva la configuración política del Estado venezolano, incluso en la actualidad. Qué impacto tuvo este enfrentamiento social generaliz...

Se expone aquí cómo la marinería de la Armada Argentina construyó la memoria del conflicto anglo-argentino por las islas Malvinas (Falklands) en la primera posguerra. Al conmemorarse el décimo aniversario del hundimiento del crucero General Belgrano  (2 de mayo de 1982), el mayor desastre argentino...

<p>Con motivo del bicentenario de la guerra de Napoleón en España queremos llamar, de nuevo, la atención sobre el gran número de alemanes que lucharon en dicha guerra en ambos bandos. A modo de ejemplo hemos elegido al joven oficial Johann Konrad Friederich de cuyas interesantes memorias, reeditadas...

El objective of this article is to analyse a practice of teaching history at bchillerato level around violence, scouring wars and narcotics in the province of Rionegro, Colombia. Work was carried out in the classroom from the ethnographical method with the proposal of dual remoxivity, the teaching o...

<p>Resumo</p> <p>O presente estudo apresenta a história de vida do Professor Frederico Michaelsen,  personagem  marcante   na   história   da  educação  do município  de  Nova  Petrópolis  -  RS.  O  eixo principal do  texto consiste numa  carta  endereçada pelo professor ao jornal Deutsche Zeitung...

The Falkland War (1982) is one of the most controlversian aspects of the recent Argentinian past. This text proposes the analysis of correspondence written by combatants on the islands as a way of approaching the experience of war, in particular on ideas of belonging based on the notion of homeland....

From the incaica and imperial city of El Cuzco, issued by Bolívar on 10 July 1825, a comfortable letter addressed to his uncle and padrino Esteban Palacios, to whom the turbion of the war had been squeezed in the sim in which thousands of Carnian stripped down.

Violence continues: political killings and institutional reform in Colombia. /Political violence in Colombia: myth and reality. /The rumour of the Astrakan. /Latin America in the face of international economic reform. /Le mythe de I’enterprise. Critique de I’idéologie managériale. /L’economiste et l...

El artículo describe y analiza el proceso histórico seguido por las “batallas de las memorias en España”. Presenta la memoria de la guerra civil – esa cesura traumática – y del franquismo como una “memoria impuesta” por la dictadura para su propia legitimación, que encuentra en la arquitectura una e...

(se incluye en español y en inglés) Este artículo aborda el estudio de un conjunto de películas de la primera década del siglo XXI que, con el trasfondo de la guerra civil y la posguerra, han construido relatos desde las coordenadas del cine fantástico y de terror. Estas películas que se distancian...

El propósito de este artículo es analizar la recuperación ritual, discursiva y simbólica de la Batalla de Yungay (20 de enero de 1839) en el contexto de la Guerra del Pacífico (1879-1883). El texto estudia la actualización del imaginario del triunfo de Yungay realizada por el discurso nacionalista c...

The article analyses the ideological and social profile of PSUC militants during the war conflict of 1936-1939, contextualising it in the framework of the international communist movement led by the IC. The similarities and differences in the social and, especially ideological, composition of the PS...

On the occasion of the Bicentenary of the War of Independence in Spain, a large number of works resulting from collective works have been published in the last eight years, articles published in specialist journals and academic event memories covering various topics, such as: heroins, patriots, afra...