Filosofía de la historia de Américalos cronistas de Indias en el pensamiento español

Résumé

This PhD work elaborate a Dictionary of the West Indies Chroniclers which also could be called catalog or encyclopedia. This work is of crucial importance for different fields of knowledge, for example, for the history of Spanish and Spanish-American thought as well as for the history in general. This work is divided in three parts: the introduction, the Dictionary of the West Indies Chroniclers and a conclusion which includes two important examples of how the Dictionary may be used. The main idea of this investigation is to revise the very concept of the History as a science. This revision is basic to elaborate a philosophy of the American history. The first part of this PhD work analyze the actual state of historiography about the Indian Chroniclers and explain why this investigation is so important. The main part of the introduction revise the development of Spanish bibliography, also explain how to use the Dictionary of the West Indians Chroniclers, its structure and contents (I). The second part is the Dictionary of the West Indians Chroniclers, which is divided in two parts: the first one contain the chronicles written between 1492 and ca. 1550 (II.4), and second part is composed of the chronicles dated by 1550 till 1700 (II.5). The mere list of the names that we join here is a unique instrument for an investigator or for a person interested in history. The importance of all material that we expose here consist in the possibility that it gives to the investigators to improve the quality of their works without spending long time for bibliographical researches. The Dictionary may be the decisive step to develop Spanish and Spanish-American thought and history. The last part of the PhD is the conclusion (III) that gives us three examples of how the actual history can be influenced by particular interests of the investigators or by political ideologies. The first example is about a well-known chronicler Bartolomé de las Casas, the second example analyze so called the “vision of the defeated” (“visión de los vencidos”) and the last example is the analysis of Peruvian historiography.