Essay
Historia de las ideas contemporáneas en Centro-América
Not translated into English
Rafael Heliodoro Valle · 1960
Synopsis
The book traces the movement of ideas in the republics of the Central American isthmus, as far as Panamá, to which a brief final chapter is devoted. After the historical background, it deals with the region's projects of union, the two historic parties, Church and State, democracy and dictatorship, the indigenous question, education and the press, then historians, the novel, social reform, and ideas in science, economics, philosophy and law.
Context
The book came out in Mexico City in 1960 from the Fondo de Cultura Económica, under the patronage of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History and with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation. In a little over three hundred pages it covers six countries and four centuries, with abundant notes, and is aimed at a cultivated public rather than at specialists. Its chapter on ideological influences, which summarises the thinkers of each country, was reprinted the same year in the Revista de Historia de las Ideas.
Who it is for
In Spanish, with no translation. A dense volume, laden with names, titles and dates, which presupposes some familiarity with the political past of Central America.
Prizes and reception
Welcomed on its publication as the first broad bibliographical synthesis on the history of ideas in Central America.
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