La "Historia Militar" como género historico

  1. Martínez Sanz, José Luis
Journal:
Cuadernos de historia contemporánea

ISSN: 0214-400X 1988-2734

Year of publication: 2003

Issue Title: Homenaje al Profesor José Urbano Martínez Carreras

Issue: 1

Pages: 37-47

Type: Article

More publications in: Cuadernos de historia contemporánea

Abstract

The «Military History» is a genre scantily cultivated genre by the academics historians, specially by spaniards, who have relegated in because its supposed political connotations. With own characteristics, it is not only a part of the «Narrative His-tory», and goes beyond the «History of the battles», wich has a high prestigious in the Anglo-Saxon field and Central European, and also the «Polemology». This article explains that entity and the different ways to deal with «Military History» with the rigor of a scientific and historical genre of first importance in the present world.