South american republics under construction. Towards a common history, by the historian Natalia Supervilla Perea, will be presented in Lima on thursday, march 3

In a joint effort, the Fund for Economic Culture, the Publishing Fund of Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and Petroperú’s Ediciones Copé, are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the book Repúblicas sudamericanas en construcción. Hacia una historia común, a book produced under the direction of renowned historian Natalia Sobrevilla Perea.

The event will take place in person on Thursday, March 03, 2022 at 11:00 am, in the Hall of Degrees of the San Marcos Cultural Center (Av. Nicolás de Piérola 1222, Cercado de Lima). In addition, it will be broadcasted on the Facebook pages of each co-publisher of the book. This act will feature comments from historians Marissa Bazán (Peru), Juan Luis Ossa Santa Cruz (Chile) and Alejandro M. Rabinovich (Argentina).

This valuable text proposes a joint look at the process of creation of the South American states in the regions that were dominated by the Spanish crown in the Andean area, understood from the Caribbean and Pacific coasts to the tributaries of the Río de la Plata, domain that did not consider the Amazon jungle, the Chaco plain and Patagonia, which were never a full part of the territories controlled by the monarchy.

With a broad temporal approach, which goes beyond what is customary on the subject, taking into account the idea that a book of this nature cannot concentrate solely on the situation of the wars of independence, a complete vision of creation is presented. and consolidation of the independent States, whose chronology covers the century that begins with the cycle of conflicts unleashed by the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) and extends until the middle of the 19th century, when the new republics faced the revolutionary situation.

This publication understands the process of independence in a "connected" way, taking into account the legacies of the imperial past, the disputes around sovereignty as a consequence of the imperial crisis, the way in which the past was used in political confrontations, the phenomenon of war and the participation of popular sectors. Although the cases of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela are analyzed, the central interest of these pages is in the thematic connections that go beyond national borders.

Natalia Sobrevilla (Peru) is the general editor of the book. The list of authors is made up of Gabriel Di Meglio (Argentina), Daniel Gutiérrez Ardila (Colombia), Juan Luis Ossa Santa Cruz (Chile) and Alejandro M. Rabinovich (Argentina). 

About the general editor

Natalia Sobrevilla Perea es Doctora en Historia por la Universidad de Londres (2005). Se licenció en Historia por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú en 1996. Entre sus publicaciones destacan: Independencia. A 200 años de lucha por la Libertad (2021), Los inicios de la República peruana. Viendo más allá de la “cueva de bandoleros” (2019), Andrés de Santa Cruz, caudillo de Los Andes (2015). En 2011 coeditó los diarios de campaña de Joaquín de la Pezuela, que están por reeditarse por el Proyecto Bicentenario. Ha publicado más de una docena de artículos sobre historia política, social y militar de los Andes en el siglo diecinueve. Ha sido profesora visitante en la Universidad de Yale entre el 2005 y el 2007, becaria de la John Carter Brown Library, la British Library, la British Academy, el Leverhulme Trust y la Fundación Alexander von Humboldt. Desde el 2007 enseña en la Universidad de Kent donde tiene la cátedra de Historia Latinoamericana.

Natalia Sobrevilla Perea has a PhD in History from the University of London (2005). She graduated in History from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in 1996. Among her publications are: Independencia. A 200 años de lucha por la Libertad (2021), Los inicios de la República peruana. Viendo más allá de la “cueva de bandoleros” (2019), Andrés de Santa Cruz, caudillo de Los Andes (2015). In 2011 she co-edited Joaquín de la Pezuela's campaign diaries, which are about to be republished by the Bicentennial Project. She has published more than a dozen articles on the political, social and military history of the Andes in the nineteenth century. She has been a visiting professor at Yale University between 2005 and 2007, a fellow of the John Carter Brown Library, the British Library, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Since 2007 she teaches at the University of Kent where she holds the Chair of Latin American History.

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