The Historiography of Modern Central America Since 1960

A BOUT 25 years ago Williamil Griffithi reviewed thie hlistoriography of Cenitral Amiierica sinice 1830' and nioted the tenidenlcy of miluclh of the wr-itinlg onl Cenltr al Amienicail hlistory to be characterized ly hli(ghi passioin. Most modern works oil political anid militarivy sujects, wrote Griffitlh, 1'are domiiniated by the spirit of passioni perhlaps mnore tlhorouglhly tlhani were the events wlhicl they record. Yet Gr-iffithi observed also that a smialler number of hlistor-ies h1ad beguni to deal with less tranisienit, imiore lbroadly signlificanlt plhenomena in Cenitral Aml-erica anid to link tlhemil witlh simiiilarcurr-i-enits elsewlhere in the 2These two clharacteristics remiiaini prominlenlt in Cenitral Amiiericani histoi-iograplhy, but altlhouglh the recenit revolutions lave heightened the passionlate quality of miluclh writinig oni the region, for the quarter-century as a wlhole it is niotewortlhy that the balance has slhifted to pirofessionial, dispassioniate anialysis of m11ore b)roadly sigi1ifican1t trenids in Cenitral America's past anid their rielationi to the riest of the world. In1deed, the pr-ofessionalizatioin of the wiritinig of Cen1tral Am11er-ican1 h1istorY duii-ig the past 2,5 year s is perlhaps the ml-ost obvious ob)Servation one call m11ake about the diverse an1d nI11Um1erotUs pub)lications of th1is per-iod. It is true that not a year goes by lbut that there are a number of' passioniate biographies or peeriod accouniits in the old style, miiore ofteni than niot by ami-iateur historianis eulogizinig ani anicestor or promllotinig a special political or econioml-ic initerest. Although somiietimiies appallinig in their histoIrical juidgimlent, or lack thereof, eveni these wor-ks have miiade a contributioni in filliing gaps in the factual chlonology of Cenitral Amiierican history

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