Title: El poder de las letras
Description: The present volume is an invitation to resume studies on the American universities of the colonial period, based on approaches open to social history. It is the result of careful and aggressive incursions into documentary collections of the cities of Mexico, Lima, Santo Domingo, Cordoba, Sucre, Mérida, Havana, Guatemala, Santiago de Chile, Quito, Bogotá, Ayacucho, Cuzco, Caracas and Guadalajara; el AGN (México); el AGI (Sevilla); el AHN (Madrid); la Biblioteca Nacional, la Biblioteca Real, el Archivo y Biblioteca Zubálburu, el Instituto Valencia de Don Juan y la Academia de la Historia in the same city. We also explored the Roman collections of religious orders with universities in the New World. Hence the proposal to return to the internal and external university archives to locate and order the sources, and evaluate the character of the testimonies available today around each institution and all of them. Throughout these pages it is emphasized how little it would be to return to the archives to ask them old questions and in which to interrogate them on a broader basis it is necessary to enter into a dialogue with the social sciences. In short: the present work aims to promote an approach to archives with new eyes and the past of universities from new perspectives.
Subjects: Universities and colleges, History, Historiography, Archival resources, Sources, Higher Education
Places: Latin America