Keywords
Mother land
“Patriotic history”
Constitutions
Record of Independence
Public Use of the Past
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Abstract
In the present work, the categories of “history” and “homeland” – or “history of homeland” – are explored in order to propose a notion of public uses of history that allows us to understand the processes through which the past is constructed, taught and represented in civic and educational practices. This study is focused on the period 1810-1814, due to the fact that the basis of the first reflections and public discussions around the meaning of history and homeland in the State of Cartagena – and in the provinces of New Granada, for sure – were settled during this short stage of political transformations. Political Constitutions, Minutes of Independence and political proclamations published in this period, which keep the records of the first meanings of both categories at the beginning of the 19th century, are studied likewise.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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