%0 Journal Article %T Alcances y l¨ªmites del paradigma de las "revoluciones hisp¨¢nicas" %A MEDINA PINEDA %A MED¨®FILO %J Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura %D 2011 %I Universidad Nacional de Colombia %X the author of the article "en el bicentenario: consideraciones en torno al paradigma de fran£¿ois-xavier guerra sobre las 'revoluciones hisp¨¢nicas'" ("the bicentennial: considerations on fran£¿ois-xavier guerra's paradigm regarding the 'hispanic revolutions'") responds to the roberto bre£¿a's written reply to that text. this reply addresses the following issues: first, the relationship between robert palmer and jacques godechot's paradigm of "atlantic revolutions" and that of "hispanic revolutions"; secondly, the similarities between french revolution revisionism and the political-cultural history of spanish-american independence; thirdly, fran£¿ois-xavier guerra's failure to take into account important trends in the historiography of the independence; and, finally, the adequate and inadequate uses of counterfactual history. %K controversy %K fran£¿ois furet %K fran£¿ois-xavier guerra %K political history %K hispanic revolutions %K revisionism. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-24562011000100011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en