Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin <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> es-ES <p>The copyright is transferred to the <em>Boletín, </em>but the authors may retrieve them and reproduce their work in other media or formats by means of a written request to the Editorial Committee. In such cases, the <em>Boletín</em> will be cited as the first publication of the work.</p> <p>The works are licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"><strong>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License,</strong></a> which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of their authorship and initial publication in this journal.</p> <p>Also, by written request to the Editorial Committee of the <em>Boletín, </em>the authors may separately establish additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (for example, placing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication here. No commercial uses are allowed.</p> boletinravignani@gmail.com (Juan Luis Martirén - Julio Djenderedjian) revistas@filo.uba.ar (Revistas) Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:26:24 +0000 OJS 3.1.2.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Between Justice and Reason of State: Vacant See, Patronage, and Frontier http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14521 <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.&nbsp;</p> Mario Graña Taborelli Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14521 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Invisible markets and “fearless people”: bandits and smugglers between the Spanish and Portuguese empires in late colonial Río de la Plata http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14145 <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.&nbsp;</p> María Inés Moraes, Adriana Dávila Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14145 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Doña Pituca. Experience, subjectivity and politics through a worker's autobiography http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14806 <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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;</p> Camila Tagle Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14806 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Interstices of economic policy during the Alfonsín government: the controversial vision of Bernardo Grinspun on the economy between 1985-1989 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/13572 <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.&nbsp;</p> Ignacio Rossi Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/13572 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Presentación al dossier Comunicar la historia. Balances, desafíos, perspectivas http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17147 <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> Lila Caimari Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17147 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Communicating History: Some Reflections http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17137 <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> Luis Alberto Romero Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17137 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Popularization of history in museums and “common sense” about Argentina's past http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17138 <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> Gabriel Di Meglio Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17138 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 “Audible History”: Historical Podcasts in the Communication of Academic Knowledge http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17139 <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> Camila Perochena Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17139 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 How to domesticate a concept? http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/16893 <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.&nbsp;</p> Andrés Freijomil Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/16893 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Reviews http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17146 <p>Lila Caimari, Lía Guillermina Oliveto, Alejandro Pautasso, Mario Etchechury Barrera, Juan Pedro Navarro Martínez, Magalí Pérez, Sabrina Asquini, Gianfranco Calzini, Germán Soprano.</p> Lila Caimari, Lía Guillermina Oliveto, Alejandro Pautasso, Mario Etchechury Barrera, Juan Pedro Navarro Martínez, Magalí Pérez, Sabrina Asquini, Gianfranco Calzini, Germán Soprano Copyright (c) 2025 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/17146 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000