La Colección de etnografía e historia de América y el embajador Roberto Levillier en México, 1934-1939
In 1934, the Argentine diplomat and historian Roberto Levillier proposed that the League of Nations create an ethnography and history collection for the Americas that would focus on the 15th to 17th Centuries, which would be under the control of the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. As Levillie...
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2019
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| author | Pita González, Alexandra |
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| description | In 1934, the Argentine diplomat and historian Roberto Levillier proposed that the League of Nations create an ethnography and history collection for the Americas that would focus on the 15th to 17th Centuries, which would be under the control of the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. As Levillier was Argentina’s ambassador to Mexico in those years, the Mexican foreign service closely followed the progress of the proposed collection and the vicissitudes of its mentor, as they feared that his sharply Hispanist tone would prejudice the interpretation of the colonial past and that the Argentine’s statements to the press would harm the international image that the country was trying to project. This process has been reconstructed through detailed diplomatic documentation. Beyond the case in question, this allows us to understand the diplomatic tensions between Mexico and Argentina, both in their direct relations and through the League of Nations and the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. As this article shows, although this was an academic proposal, the arguments for and against were not connected to a debate within the discipline nor to the constitution of the history of the Americas as a line of research. Instead, there prevailed the political perspective and the interests of a diplomatic class concerned with the complex prewar environment in which actors attempted to simultaneously resolve national, regional and international issues. |
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| spelling | oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article-38582023-10-07T18:56:38Z The Ethnography and History Collection of America and Ambassador Roberto Levillier in Mexico, 1934-1939 La Colección de etnografía e historia de América y el embajador Roberto Levillier en México, 1934-1939 Pita González, Alexandra Mexico Argentina Intellectual Cooperation international policy cultural diplomacy 20th Century México Argentina Cooperación Intelectual política internacional diplomacia cultural siglo XX In 1934, the Argentine diplomat and historian Roberto Levillier proposed that the League of Nations create an ethnography and history collection for the Americas that would focus on the 15th to 17th Centuries, which would be under the control of the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. As Levillier was Argentina’s ambassador to Mexico in those years, the Mexican foreign service closely followed the progress of the proposed collection and the vicissitudes of its mentor, as they feared that his sharply Hispanist tone would prejudice the interpretation of the colonial past and that the Argentine’s statements to the press would harm the international image that the country was trying to project. This process has been reconstructed through detailed diplomatic documentation. Beyond the case in question, this allows us to understand the diplomatic tensions between Mexico and Argentina, both in their direct relations and through the League of Nations and the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. As this article shows, although this was an academic proposal, the arguments for and against were not connected to a debate within the discipline nor to the constitution of the history of the Americas as a line of research. Instead, there prevailed the political perspective and the interests of a diplomatic class concerned with the complex prewar environment in which actors attempted to simultaneously resolve national, regional and international issues. En 1934 el diplomático e historiador argentino Roberto Levillier propuso a la Sociedad de Naciones (SDN) crear una colección de etnografía e historia de América dedicada a los siglos XV a XVII, la cual quedaría bajo el control de Cooperación Intelectual. Dado que Levillier fue embajador de Argentina en México durante esos años, la cancillería mexicana siguió con atención el itinerario de la colección y las peripecias por las que pasó su mentor, puesto que temían que su fuerte tono hispanista perjudicara la interpretación del pasado colonial y que las opiniones que daba el argentino en la prensa dañaran la imagen internacional que el país buscaba proyectar. A partir de numerosa documentación diplomática se reconstruyó este proceso, el cual, más allá del caso puntual, nos ayuda a entender las tensiones en el campo diplomático entre México y Argentina, así como entre éstos, la SDN y Cooperación Intelectual. Como intentaremos mostrar, aunque se trató de una propuesta académica, los comentarios a favor o en contra de su realización no se vincularon con un debate disciplinar ni con la conformación de una Historia de América como línea de investigación. Primó la mirada política y los intereses de una diplomacia preocupada por un complejo panorama pre guerra, donde los actores involucrados buscaban solucionar simultáneamente problemas nacionales, regionales e internacionales. El Colegio de México, A.C. 2019-04-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf application/xml https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/3858 10.24201/hm.v68i4.3858 Historia Mexicana; Vol. 68, Núm. 4 (272) abril-junio 2019; 1697-1742 2448-6531 0185-0172 spa https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/3858/3818 https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/3858/3846 Derechos de autor 2019 Historia Mexicana |
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| title | La Colección de etnografía e historia de América y el embajador Roberto Levillier en México, 1934-1939 |
| title_alt | The Ethnography and History Collection of America and Ambassador Roberto Levillier in Mexico, 1934-1939 |
| title_full | La Colección de etnografía e historia de América y el embajador Roberto Levillier en México, 1934-1939 |
| title_fullStr | La Colección de etnografía e historia de América y el embajador Roberto Levillier en México, 1934-1939 |
| title_full_unstemmed | La Colección de etnografía e historia de América y el embajador Roberto Levillier en México, 1934-1939 |
| title_short | La Colección de etnografía e historia de América y el embajador Roberto Levillier en México, 1934-1939 |
| title_sort | la coleccion de etnografia e historia de america y el embajador roberto levillier en mexico 1934 1939 |
| topic | Mexico Argentina Intellectual Cooperation international policy cultural diplomacy 20th Century México Argentina Cooperación Intelectual política internacional diplomacia cultural siglo XX |
| topic_facet | Mexico Argentina Intellectual Cooperation international policy cultural diplomacy 20th Century México Argentina Cooperación Intelectual política internacional diplomacia cultural siglo XX |
| url | https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/3858 |
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