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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Nuestra visión del pasado depende de dos cosas: los hechos o situaciones que se relatan, y la persona del historiador que los describe y analiza. Para un conocimiento histórico a cabalidad, no basta con estudiar el pasado a través de un libro, sino que es preciso conocer sobre la persona que lo escribió. Este primer tomo de La historiografía chilena pretende, justamente, saber quiénes y cómo eran los historiadores que han construido la imagen de Chile entre 1842 y 1920.

El libro se basa en los expedientes de corrupción municipal que, una vez denunciados, se veían en la sala primera de gobierno del Consejo de Castilla. Se incluyen las actuaciones de ese Consejo, las sentencias a que daban lugar tales casos y las reacciones de los caciques sentenciados. Ello permite ofrecer un amplio y triste panorama de la vida de los municipios castellanos del siglo XVIII, y posibilita asimismo penetrar en las actuaciones del Consejo. La muestra es amplia, desde luego: incluye todos los casos de corrupción estudiados en el Consejo entre 1714 y 1760. Pero esa corrupción...