Keywords
History
Centenaries
Archivo General de la Nación
Oficina Principal de Registro Público.
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Abstract
On April 19, 1910, multiple activities and projects were programmed to commemorate the first centenary of the independence of Venezuela. Two of them, the construction of the building for the Office of the Main Registry -currently the General Archive of the Nation- and the celebration of the Congress of Municipalities, showcase mixed visions of the idea of nation that was conveyed by the government: a) the one that unites the nation to its past, which we should forget to avoid refreshing the wounds of the colonial period, and b) the one that moves away from that tormented past and its historical load, and focuses on a promissory future that would allow to rewrite the nation. These two events -the archive and the Congress of Municipalities- presented altogether, offer an image of the courses in which the idea of nation was being constructed at the beginning of the Venezuelan 20th century.Apuntes 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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