La patria del criollo de Severo Martínez Peláez : reflexiones sobre su legado (1970-2009)

Abstract

This article assesses the historiographic legacy of Guatemalan historian Severo Martínez Peláez’s first work, which was also the most fundamental writing to the development of the social sciences in Guatemala and Central America. Throughout this exploration, special attention is paid to the intellectual and political debates that addressed the writing of La patria del criollo, while also considering certain biographic details about its author in order to offer an understanding of the intellectual importance of his labor as a university professor, a historian, and a citizen who was concerned with the social transformation of his country.