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One of the most important processes and of which all other university activities are sustained is research. Research is creation, original production, development of argumentation and coherence of ideas, exhaustive review-deep reflection, solving mysteries and, ultimately, giving focus to dreams. The integral conceptual approach, proposed by Rico1, for whom the research "is to colonize a small or large plot, to plant, cultivate, harvest and distribute its fruits, so that later others come to improve, optimize and overcome our task".   DOI:  10.25176/RFMH.v19.n1.1786

Introducción La utilización de los periódicos como fuente, por parte de los historiadores de Costa Rica, se limita casi siempre a los textos de contenido (cartas, noticias, reportajes, editoriales, comunicados, etc.) estratégicos para el estudio de distintos sectores y conflictos sociales, El propósito de esta selección de documentos es, sin embargo, destacar la riqueza que brinda, enj especial a partir de 1850, otro tipo de materiales: los "avisos" -publicitarios o no-, útiles para explorar con detalle diversos aspectos de la vida económica y cultural del país, particularmente en al esfea del quehacer cotidiano...

The present paper delves into the information about the process of evangelization contained in the works of Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin —his Journal and his Relations— in the light of the author’s background and upbringing. Because of his status as a nobleman raised by the Catholic Church, Chimalpahin tried to insert the past of the Chalcas into the great scheme of the history of salvation. Hence the importance of approaching his formative stage and the analysis of their social relations.

The Spanish neo-feudal conceptof privilege continued rooted in thecolonizing discourse several centuries after the conquest. Utilizing MikhailBakhtin’s concept of the superaddressee, my discursive study comparesÁlvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s 1542 La Relación and Capítulo XV inMatías de la Mota Padilla’s 1742 Historia. Although two centuries separateCabeza de Vaca’s La Relación and Capítulo XV in Mota Padilla’s Historia,the narratives use the notion of privilege to justify “their” social, political,and economic rights derived from the conquest. The paper consists of threesections: narrative background, economic context, and textual analysis.

The objective of the research is to describe the development of botanicalexplorations organized by the National Academy of Sciences in the period1874-1887 through the Bulletin of the National Academy of Sciences in threeaspects: the purposes of the explorers in the framework of the Argentinegovernment’s interest in natural resources; the relationship betweenacademics and the different local informants about the flora; and thedifferent scientific results. The conclusions show that between 1870 and1887 the Academy was an important institution for the beginning of thescientific prospecting of Argentine flora through foreign and nationalacademics, an issue that generated the bases for a greater understanding ofthe national vegetation, its comparison with other floras of the world andtheir economic use. For the appreciation of Botany as a useful science to theArgentine State, academics linked their scientific projects with governmentinterests for the appropriation of plant resources taking advantage of localknowledge about the flora, an issue that materialized in listings, tables,tables, collections and specialized books. The originality of the article lies inthe analysis of the set of botanical explorations in Argentina through thebulletin in the foundational years of the Academy, since historiography hasbeen overlooked in this publication and its relationship with the history ofthe national Botany. The source of the research consists of the reports of fiveacademics, both foreign and national: Georg Hieronymus, Paul GüntherLorentz, Ludwig Brackebusch, Fritz Kurtz y Eduardo L. Holmberg.

The objective of the article is to demonstrate the emergence and importance of an urban political culture linked to the introduction of water supply at home in the city of Aguascalientes during the first decades of the 20th century. The text analyzes the functioning of the supply system, studies the emergence of neighborhood organizations and explains the rhythms and strategies of citizen mobilizations protesting the scarcity of liquid. The information obtained in local press releases and in reports, petitions, complaints and correspondence located in municipal, state and national archives, points to the existence of an ideal city that guided the growth of the state capital of Aguascalientes and influenced the relationship established between government and urban social actors in a key period of the conformation of the Mexican State emerged from the Revolution of 1910.

This essay analyzes two letters written by Ambrosio Eugenio Melgarejo de Santaella addressed to the Viceroy of New Spain, the Count of Aranda, and the King of Spain, Carlos III, respectively. In such correspondence, Melgarejo requested royal favors to have their children “lustrosamente establecidos” [prestigiously established]. Foucault's theory of genealogy, will shed some light about the meaning of regal concessions within the colonial context in New Spain, and the importance of lineage in the establishment of a creole identity. In the study of Ambrosio’s manuscripts there is a representation of symbolic elements that are key to Mexico’s independence. In addition, it is possible to study Ambrosio Eugenio’s letters as the starting point of some of the practices that afflict Hispanic societies today, such as the lack of transparency of public institutions, or the social, and economic inequalities among different ethnic groups.

The present work explains how the first series of books of the History of Ideas, of Pan American Institute of Geography and History, were created. This edition meant the end of “Pan-American” cultural project, started at beginnings of XX Century, that became stronger at the decade of the thirties among the intellectual American networks. For this, I will explain the publisher inner process in the Pan American Institute of Geography and History and the Mexican editorial Fondo de Cultura Económica between 1948 to 1956. Also, I will point out the relevance of the series in the pan Americanism and the professionalization of History, in Mexico. The history of the series present national stories on the intellectual development in American countries. This article is part of the bachelor’s dissertation of the author; for its realization books from PAIGH, General Archive of Fondo de Cultura Económica books from the series of the History of Ideas, and complementary bibliography were used.

Although the well-known work of Hipólito Villarroel, Enfermedades políticas que padece la capital de esta Nueva España (written at the end of the18th Century) has been often cited and quoted, it has not yet deserved a real case study. The purpose of this paper is to contribute in this direction andexamine some aspects of the Enfermedades from the perspective of the Enlightment, and the Bourbon Reforms, but above all, from that of the careerand personal political experiences of the author in New Spain. This approach attests to the fact that even the most fervent supporters of the administrativemodernization of Charles III were deeply influenced by the American realities which moderated or shifted their thought in a fashion not considered bythe original Spanish models.