La nación bajo examen : La historiografía sobre el nacionalismo y la identidad nacional en el siglo XIX chileno

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to examine the evolution of the historiography concerning the matters of nation-building, nationalism and the Chilean national identity during the nineteenth century. This article aims to identify the state of the matter according with these problems, focuses on the major historiographical discussions, principal contributions, theoretical limits and methodological possibilities that historiography offers to analyze these main issues.