Mitre and the building of an Argentinean historiographic heritage

Abstract

This article analyses the historical work of Bartolomé Mitre from Argentina on the second half of XX century. This study presents controversial issues about his writting way of History, the erudite rigour, the documentary collection composition and some themes enunciated on his most important works, such as Historia de Belgrano y de La independencia argentina (1887) and Historia de San Martin y de La emacipación sudamericana (1888). In this process there is na aim for broaching the relations between Politics and History, as well the reasons which justify his presence in the centre of the Argertinean historiographic debate, his contradictions and paradoxes which he made statements, additionally his condition of a particular person who belongs to Platine historiographic culture.