El Mercurio chileno
By: recompilación y estudio Gabriel Cid
Series: Fuentes para la historia de la república -- v. 31; Fuentes para la historia de la república -- v. 31.
Publisher: Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santiago de Chile
Language: spa
Number of pages: 621
ISBN-13: 9789562442176
Subjects: Chilean periodicals; Mercurio chileno
Other titles: Mercurio chileno.
Notes: "This magazine, although short-lived, was important in its day and has great historical interest. Edited by José Joaquín de Mora, a Spaniard who spent some years in Chile, it was an outlet for Mora's literary activity and thought as well as for other liberal intellectuals. ... He printed numerous literary and scientific articles, some poetry and foreign notices of importance. As a staunch liberal he defended what were then considered very progressive theories. He was asked by the liberal government of Joaquin Pinto to edit what is now called the Constitution of 1828. Much of Mora's work on the constitution was published in the Mercurio, and for this reason, if for no other, it ranks as one of the principal periodicals of the early years."-- Rare Nineteenth-Century Latin American Periodicals, by Frederick M. Lauritsen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Prensa y conocimiento: El Mercurio chileno, 1828-1829 / Gabriel Cid; title: 2. El Mercurio chileno (No. 1, 1 de abril de 1828 ~ No. 16, 1 de julio de 1829).