Regional history versus national history inthe XX century. Encounters, dis-encounters and present situation

Abstract

In this article the confrontation between national history and regional
history in our country is analysed. Some characteristics and
ínterrelatíons of both ways of doing hystory-graphy are pointed out as
well as the progressíve consolídation of the local historie studies from
the Mexican Revolution.
However, it is during the nineties when the regional history-graphy is
consolidated and the two ways of doing history is understood as
complementary perspectives not as opposing to each others. At the
end a spurious. superficial. homogeneous, cynic, and generalising history-graphy is rejected, and a need to create in Mexico a plural, critical well sustained, collecive, and independent from polítical power is postulated.