Historia de Belgrano y de la Independencia Argentina

This article is about a book. For the topics themselves, see Manuel Belgrano and Argentine War of Independence.
Historia de Belgrano y de la Independencia Argentina
AuthorBartolomé Mitre
LanguageSpanish
SubjectManuel Belgrano
GenreBiography
Publication date
1857
Publication placeArgentina
Followed byHistoria de San Martín y de la emancipación sudamericana 

Historia de Belgrano y de la Independencia Argentina (English: History of Belgrano and Argentine Independence) is an Argentine history book written by Bartolomé Mitre.[1] It is mainly a biography of Manuel Belgrano, but the author expanded the scope to the whole Argentine War of Independence, where Belgrano was involved. It was the first book about the history of Argentina, and as such the starting point of the historiography of Argentina.

The work was the result of a collaborative intellectual effort. In the preface to the second edition of 1859, Mitre recognized the contribution of Andrés Lamas, Carlos Calvo, Juan María Gutiérrez, Florencio Varela, and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, among others, as part of the process of creating early Argentine historiography.[2]

Historian José Luis Romero described the work as "at once the life of a man and the history of an epoch," as Mitre was motivated by fundamental questions about the legitimacy of national unification and the historical course that had led to the present day in Argentina. The book also features the first publication of Belgrano's autobiography, which had previously been unavailable to scholars and the public.[3]

When it was edited, the book generated controversies between the author and Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield[4] and Juan Bautista Alberdi.[5]

References

  1. ^ McAllister, Catriona (2022). Literary Reimaginings of Argentina’s Independence: History, Fiction, Politics. Liverpool University Press. p. 13. ISBN 9781800345515. Retrieved October 4, 2025.
  2. ^ Marcelo Garabedian (26 June 2023). "La «Historia de Belgrano» como un proyecto común". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-01-26.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Romero, José Luis (1967). "Presentación". In Mitre, Bartolomé (ed.). Historia de Belgrano y de la independencia argentina. Buenos Aires: Eudeba.
  4. ^ Galasso, Norberto (2011). Historia de la Argentina: desde los pueblos originarios hasta el tiempo de los Kirchner (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Ediciones Colihue. ISBN 9789505634781.
  5. ^ Claudio Chaves (25 May 2021). "Mitre y Alberdi, dos miradas enfrentadas sobre la Revolución de Mayo". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-01-26.
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