La historiografía modernista en Galicia entre 1990 y 2009: Balance y perspectivas de investigación.

Abstract

Modernist Galician historiography had its climax when the generational change reached its maturity at the end of the last century, entering then in an important decline. What is most significant in the historiography of the last twenty years is the thematic expansion and the enlargement of new territorial spaces which forced us to readjust some classic interpretations. Demography was overturned in the analysis of migratory movements and opened new perspectives thanks to the “anthropological turn”; rural history lost its old hegemony but it widened with new unexplored territories and paid more attention to the potentialities of smallholdings with less pessimistic approaches; social history was opened to the study of living standards, to strategies of social reproduction and it enriched the process of formation of “hidalguía”; the history of mentalities advanced considerably thanks to the knowledge of the application of the religious Tridentine model and benefited from the cultivation of new lines opened by socio-cultural history. And, meanwhile, political history expanded its horizons with new themes and chronologies which favour the dynamic analyses of power and the institutions as opposed to the structural analyses of earlier times