Agustín R. González and his History of the State of Aguascalientes. A historiographic analysis

Abstract

This article is a first approach to the book, of Agustín R. González, History of the State of Aguascalientes, from a historiographic perspective. Starting with a brief description of this life and trajectory as a public man, the author is ubicated within the political and historiographic environment which surrounded him, in order so later can analyze his most important historic work. A long the text, aspects search as his ideal absolute history, the objectives he had on writing, the sources he utilized and the way he justified the creation of a local history when the consolidation of a nationalistic feeling what was searched during those years.