Las sociedades regionales en la construcción de la nación venezolana

Abstract

Since the 1980's, the critical review of the preceding national historiography and the advances in the research of the Venezuelan historical process has aimed their analysis to new methodological proposals. Firstly, the current studies are separated from the traditional approach of our history based on the prominence of urban high layers of the north-central region of the country. It is argued how such optics has led to examine and interpret by analogy the evolution of the processes of socio-economic, political and cultural Venezuelans depending on what happened in Caracas and its socio-political environment, without taking into account local and regional specificities of the territorial Assembly. They are more "nationalist" to national stories. With regard to the studies until the middle 20th century on local and regional history, valuable and undeniable effort to know the particularities of the various cities, provinces and States of the Republic. How in those States proceeded with a methodology similar to historiography centralism that is observed in the General histories of Venezuela. The historical reconstruction of such regional spaces has been done traditionally with a treatment which limited the analysis to the administrative capitals of provinces or States, and, in the best of cases includes the precise boundary limits of different jurisdictions. They contextualize not shared with neighboring regions and even less with national socio-economic, political and cultural relations. In this sense have been more "regionalists" to strictly regional such stories.