Acerca de la conflictividad política en las Provincias Unidas de Sud América: la trayectoria del chileno José Miguel Carrera y la formación del “Ejército Restaurador” en Buenos Aires (1818-1820)

Abstract

In the last few decades the literature on the hispanoamerican independence revolutions contributed to moderate the weight of the ‘myth of the origen’ in the analysis of the political communities born from the colapse of the Spanish power in America. Nevertheless, the agreement about the new canon does not obviate the dilemma presented by the forms through which the identity components of the old ‘patria criolla’, and the early independent life contributed to form national political identities divergent from the ones that came after 1830. The intinerary of the chilean patriot José Miguel Carreras in the Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata between 1818 and 1820 allow us to reconstruct the characteristics of a political performance in the margins of the revolutionary power, and the paper that would be accomplished by the territorial identities and the policies in the independence wars.