El Centenario de la Constitución de 1857. Libros conmemorativos y profesionalización historiográfica en México

Abstract

The decade of the fifties of the 20th century constitutes an important point of view about different intellectual, editorial, political and cultural processes that happened currently around history’s professionalization as an academic discipline. On that way, it is sustainable on the next pages that the political commemorative culture around Mexican nationalism on the fifties, through their commemorative books (this books are assumed as a primary source and object of study) can be seen as an alternative platform to analyze how pioneers of the history’s professionalization and institutionalization ―and some of their first pupils― incorporated in the field of production of a new historiography that, came mostly from an institutional or state initiative and, as a result, it subscribed to the nationalist rhetoric of its time, at the time of professional historians were incorporating in these ideas, they started to produce new senses for the readings of the national history, and early they were distinguishing from the productions written by politicians, intellectuals and lawyers, constituting the consolidation of the autonomy in the field of production of professional historiography or opening new paths to explain national history, just like it happened in the commemoration of the centennial of the 1857 Constitution which is analyzed here through one of their works, trajectories and sociability networks of their authors in the cultural context of the cold war.