The historian J. Francisco V. Silva

The fabric consistency between Hispanicism, historiographical revision and political project

Abstract

At the beginning of the 20th century, in the context of various political and ideological debates that permeated cultural criticism in Argentina and Latin America, the historian J. Francisco V. Silva produced, through the networking between Argentina and Spain, a series of historiographical interventions that are eloquent of a particular way of opposing to the liberal history already crystallized in the region. First, this work seeks a characterization of the intellectual and, later, an examination of his main ideas about Argentina's past and its articulation with the foundations of a specific political project, called panhispanismo, expression of a vindictive vision of the Spain's historical role towards a Latin America besieged by North American pretensions.