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Hispanic American Historical Studies in Spain: Trends and Prospects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 April 2010
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After several attempts and failures, the Asociación Española de Americanistas was, at last, formally established in 1983. The association is now in the process of being affiliated to the European Council of Social Research on Latin America. In this way, Spain's americanistas are trying -with not much success, I would say - to organize themselves as a professional body, and also to create an institutional frame for coordination of their research, publications, library resources and representation of their common interests. There is no hope of the Asociación ever reaching the effectiveness of, for instance, the German Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Latinamerika–Forschung in the early 1970s, but at least we start to think - if not to move - in the right direction, namely, of solidarity and cooperation on a national scale.
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1 Such is the present ICI. The role that many Spanish Americanists would like the ICI to assume as an autonomous cultural foundation, is described by Perez, José Muñoz, Discurso y reflexiones en torno a la Comunidad Hispánica de Naciones, Seville: EEHA, 1982, 164–170Google Scholar.
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3 Just a reminder of the recent translation into Spanish (Barcelona: Editorial Ariel, 1984)Google Scholar of Veliz's, Claudio interesting essay The Centralist Tradition of Latin America, Princeton University Press, 1980,Google Scholar dealing with the cultural and historical differences between the Iberoamerican civilization and the industrial civilization of North-Western and Central Europe. With respect to Spain's singularity and the problem of the varieties of European civilizations and cultures, it is too complex a question to be discussed here.
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5 On early Americanism in Madrid, see reminiscences by Gaibrois, Manuel Ballesteros, “Maestros del americanismo: Antonio Ballesteros y Beretta (1880-1949)”, Quinto Centenario (Madrid), no. 3, 1982, pp. 1–27Google Scholar.
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