Letters to History. The epistolary of Juan Pivel Devoto and the historiography of the Rio de la Plata

Custodied in the National General Archive of Montevideo, the “Juan Ernesto Pivel Devoto Collection” contains,  among other documentary series, a practically unexplored epistolary. This is a considerable amount of letters  sent to the illustrious Uruguayan historian by foreign intellectuals and acade...

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Autor principal: Sansón Corbo, Tomás
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Estudios Históricos “Prof. Carlos S. A. Segreti” 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/refa/article/view/33099
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Sumario:Custodied in the National General Archive of Montevideo, the “Juan Ernesto Pivel Devoto Collection” contains,  among other documentary series, a practically unexplored epistolary. This is a considerable amount of letters  sent to the illustrious Uruguayan historian by foreign intellectuals and academic corporations. The purpose  of this article is to show the potential usefulness of the corpus for research on the process of shaping the  historiographic fields of the Rio de la Plata region between the 1930s and the 1950s and 60s.