http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/issue/feedBoletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani2025-07-04T14:26:26+00:00Juan Luis Martirén - Julio Djenderedjianboletinravignani@gmail.comOpen Journal Systems<p>The <em>Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani”</em> is a biannual journal of history that reflects the best results of historiographical research work in Latin America, as well as Latin Americanist works from other regions of the world. Its purpose is to constitute a means of communication between the authors and the specialized academic public to which it is addressed; but it also aspires to reach a wider audience, hoping to enrich the contributions and debates of Latin American historiography.</p> <p>The <em>Boletín </em>publishes two issues per year (January-June and July-December). The publication in paper format has been carried out since 1922, and in digital form since 2011.</p>http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14521Between Justice and Reason of State: Vacant See, Patronage, and Frontier2025-06-30T15:38:49+00:00Mario Graña Taborellimjgrania@hotmail.com<p>The present article explores the political dynamic in the district of the royal court of justice of Charcas or Real Audiencia de Charcas during the period in which Perú did not have a viceroy between 1606 and 1607, re-assessing and expanding on Bridikhina’s (2015) suggestion that the tribunal benefitted from such periods. During these twenty-two months and amidst legal discussions with the royal court of justice in Lima and the Consejo de Indias, the Audiencia in Charcas took over the government of its district, monopolising the distribution of rewards, accelerating the transformation of the east of Charcas into a territory of the Catholic Monarchy through an expedition to support a group of Chiriguanaes. Some contemporaries deemed the period as of “bad government”. However, the exceptional circumstances enabled Audiencia members to<br>take on additional duties, based on a rhetoric of “reason of state”, prioritising a government run with support from their political clients, aligned with the local elite, as a more pragmatical manner to run the district. Without an “alter-ego” of Phillip III in Peru, the Audiencia in Charcas thought of itself as the best suited<br>institution to make the monarch present in its jurisdiction. </p>2025-06-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignanihttp://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14145Invisible markets and “fearless people”: bandits and smugglers between the Spanish and Portuguese empires in late colonial Río de la Plata2025-06-30T18:30:50+00:00María Inés Moraesmariaines.moraes@fcea.edu.uyAdriana Dávilaadrianajuana@gmail.com<p>This work uses primary sources to provide an insight of the people, commodities, and geography of land smuggling in some regions of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata located between the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire in the late decades of Spanish rule (1780-1805). For the first time in the territories<br>studied in this paper, the results offer quantitative information on the occupational profile of the people accused of being smugglers, their nationality and origin, as well as the cargoes they trafficked, and geo-referenced information on the spaces where they moved. It aims to document on two facts of historical<br>interest: the social status of the subjects involved in illegal border trafficking and the spatiality of the phenomenon. </p>2025-06-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignanihttp://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14806Doña Pituca. Experience, subjectivity and politics through a worker's autobiography2025-06-30T18:31:12+00:00Camila Taglecamilatagle@yahoo.com.ar<p>The aim of this article is to analyze the autobiography of ‘Pituca’, a worker born in the north of the province of Córdoba in the early 1930s. That manuscript, dated 1990 and to which we were able to gain access in the context of a series of interviews, provided privileged entrance to issues of great interest for the understanding of an individual trajectory inseparable from the class conditions that made it possible. Following this premise, this article focuses on three of the central cores that structure it: the representation of her rural origins, the remembrance of a daily life directly linked to domestic service in the city of Córdoba, and the reconstruction of the process of politicization that led to the early identification of this female worker with Peronism. In a transversal way, it attends to the narrative modulations and strategies associated with a style of writing that continually reflects, also, its class markers. </p>2025-06-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignanihttp://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/13572Interstices of economic policy during the Alfonsín government: the controversial vision of Bernardo Grinspun on the economy between 1985-19892025-06-30T18:31:27+00:00Ignacio Rossiignacio.a.rossi@gmail.com<p>Economics and economic history studies that dealt with the years of Raúl Alfonsín’s government (1983-1989) gave less importance to the vision, interpretation and controversies raised by the first Minister of Economy Bernardo Grinspun (1983-1985). Especially, and taking into account his economic failure, compared to the studies and testimonies of collaborators and officials of his successor in the Ministry of Economy, Juan Sourrouille (1985-1989). The article analyzes Grinspun’s vision of economic policies while he served as Secretary of Economic Planning, focusing on the debates raised and the alternatives and proposals for economic policy. The sources studied were speeches, official documents and bibliography of Grinspun, as well as press and public statistics and testimonies about the period. We sustain that analyzing Grinspun’s vision of the economy and economic policy allows us to understand the tension between the economic visions within the ruling party and the alternative proposals that the former Minister formulated to face the economic problems of the period. In particular, highlighting his postulates on the need for financial reform as a driving force to recover growth and reduce inflation levels. </p>2025-06-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignanihttp://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17147Presentación al dossier Comunicar la historia. Balances, desafíos, perspectivas2025-07-04T14:26:26+00:00Lila Caimariboletinravignani@gmail.com<pre id="tw-target-text" class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" dir="ltr" data-placeholder="Traducción" data-ved="2ahUKEwidoIf7p8mNAxUIlZUCHUriHWEQ3ewLegQIDhAV" aria-label="Texto traducido: Presentation to the Communicating the Story dossier. Assessments, challenges, perspectives"><span class="Y2IQFc" lang="en">Presentation to the dossier: Communicating the Story. Assessments, challenges, perspectives</span></pre>2025-06-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignanihttp://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17137Communicating History: Some Reflections2025-06-30T18:32:00+00:00Luis Alberto Romeroboletinravignani@gmail.com<p>This essay examines various aspects of communication in history, considered as part of the production of historical knowledge and the education of its audience. It initially argues for the suitability of the term “communication” instead of “dissemination”. It then points out some general problems –the historian as communicator, the public, the role of the editor– and concludes with a reference to two very different historians with unique capacities for communication: Félix Luna and José Luis Romero.</p>2025-06-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignanihttp://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17138Popularization of history in museums and “common sense” about Argentina's past2025-06-30T18:32:16+00:00Gabriel Di Meglioboletinravignani@gmail.com<p>This paper explores how the popularization of history in museums, based on recent historiographic contributions, coexists with the historical ideas held by their visitors. The analysis is based on the author's experience in conveying content about the Revolution of Independence at the Museo del Cabildo de Buenos Aires and the Museo Histórico Nacional (Argentina). The paper discusses the presence of a “revisionist common sense”, as posited by some historians, and proposes the primacy among the publics of a “patriotic common sense,” developed in elementary school.</p>2025-06-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignanihttp://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17139“Audible History”: Historical Podcasts in the Communication of Academic Knowledge2025-06-30T18:32:30+00:00Camila Perochenaboletinravignani@gmail.com<p>Podcasts have become an especially valuable tool for historians seeking to engage broader publics with their scholarly work. This article examines the formats and functions of historical podcasts produced by academic historians in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Argentina. A key focus of this analysis is how these podcasts negotiate the tension between accessibility and entertainment on the one hand, and the communication of complex, methodologically rigorous interpretations of the past on the other.</p>2025-06-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignanihttp://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/16893How to domesticate a concept? 2025-06-30T18:32:51+00:00Andrés Freijomilfreixomil@gmail.com<p style="font-weight: 400;">The publication of <em>Civilización. Historia de un concepto</em> by José Emilio Burucúa marks a turning in Argentine historiography. Not only is this an unprecedented historical research for our scientific field, but, by inverting the usual conditions in which the idea of otherness is understood, the author forges a new concept of civilisation and, at the same time, offers a vast panorama of its conceptual itinerary through the most diverse cultural areas. However, this work also aims to take a political and intellectual stance on a phenomenon that has always been very sensitive to his historiography. After a brief comparative exercise with the English historian Eileen Power’s conception of the High Middle Ages and her political militancy before the outbreak of the Total War, we will try to find some points in common with Burucúa’s work and other differences in order to analyse the way in which the author dialogues with different historiographical traditions. </p>2025-06-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignanihttp://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17146Reviews2025-07-03T14:20:38+00:00Lila Caimariboletinravignani@gmail.comLía Guillermina Olivetoboletinravignani@gmail.comAlejandro Pautassoboletinravignani@gmail.comMario Etchechury Barreraboletinravignani@gmail.comJuan Pedro Navarro Martínezboletinravignani@gmail.comMagalí Pérezboletinravignani@gmail.comSabrina Asquiniboletinravignani@gmail.comGianfranco Calziniboletinravignani@gmail.comGermán Sopranoboletinravignani@gmail.com<p>Lila Caimari, Lía Guillermina Oliveto, Alejandro Pautasso, Mario Etchechury Barrera, Juan Pedro Navarro Martínez, Magalí Pérez, Sabrina Asquini, Gianfranco Calzini, Germán Soprano.</p>2025-06-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani