From the ashes of history : loss and recovery of archives and libraries in modern Latin America
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From the ashes of history : loss and recovery of archives and libraries in modern Latin America
（History and social sciences series）
Editorial A Contracorriente, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references
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- Fortunas y adversidades del archivo de la inquisición de Lima / Pedro Guibovich Pérez
- History out of the ashes : remembering Brazilian slavery after Rui Barbosa's burning of the documents / Amy Chazkel
- A cultural tragedy : the destruction and reconstruction of the Peruvian National Library, 1943-1948 / Carlos Aguirre
- Detrás de una puerta gris : notas sobre los archivos policiales públicos argentinos / Lila Caimari, Mariana Nazar
- La reconstrucción de un universo : los archivos sobre el sistema de desaparición forzada de personas en la Argentina / Emilio Crenzel
- Plotting a fire : the burning of Mexico's Cineteca Nacional and the idea of a self-destructing archive / Javier Villa-Flores
- Waging Guatemala's archive wars : documentation, mobilization, justice / Kirsten Weld
- Archivos campesinos : San Juan de Ondores, actas comunales e historias rurales en el Perú, 1937-2012 / Javier Puente
- Archivos, bibliotecas y la memoria obrera, social y cultural de los argentinos / Horacio Tarcus
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The formation, organization, and accessibility of archives and libraries are critical for the production of historical narratives. They contain the materials with which historians and others reconstruct past events. Archives and libraries, however, not only help produce history, but also have a history of their own. From the early colonial projects to the formation of nation states in Latin America, archives and libraries had been at the center of power struggles and conflicting ideas over patrimony and document preservation that demand historical scrutiny. Much of their collections have been lost on account of accidents or sheer negligence, but there are also cases of recovery and reconstruction that have opened new windows to the past. The essays in this volume explore several fascinating cases of destruction and recovery of archives and libraries and illuminate the ways in which those episodes help shape the writing of historical narratives and the making of collective memories.
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