Lucrecia Enríquez. Historia, memoria y olvido del 12 de febrero de 1818. Los pueblos y su declaración de la independencia de Chile. Rosario: Prohistoria Ediciones, 2018

Abstract

Reexamining the history of Independence implies an enormous challenge. The historiography on this period has remained imprisoned in traditions and conventions imposed by historians of the XIX century; It can be attributed to this that for decades this topic did not arouse great interest in later generations. The American emancipation was revisited with greater attention in the centenary and sesquicentennial years, although a good part of the texts produced on those dates had a commemorative tone and few of them contributed new interpretations, thus helping to reinforce the distinctive facts of the period and to exalt the heroism of its protagonists