Representation and historiography: multiple looks to the past of the Cubagua Island (1892-2014)

Abstract

Cubagua Island has been represented in the past in many ways in modern history, sometimes as synonymous with New Cadiz, sometimes as synonymous with wealth, exploitation and natural disasters. This work is an approach to the discourses on the past of Cubagua has been built, to account for the diverse perspectives and approaches, as well as the various interests that have guided researchers in the reconstruction of the past Cuagüense. For this historiographical production it was divided into three stages. The first one called foresight, by the pioneering nature of the work carried out at this stage, the second archaeological documentary characterized by the role of these investigations in the production of documentary and archaeological sources for the study of the past in Cubagua and the third as an interpretive stage, because in it the interests of researchers target specific problems of the past Cuagüense.