La crisis de la monarquía hispánica y la independencia neogranadina, 1808-1830. Periodización, problemas y perspectivas historiográficas

This article proposes a potential historic periodization structure for the systematic study of the independence in Latin America, especially that of Nueva Granada. For this three fundamental issues are approached: the crisis in the Spanish monarchy, the irruption and transformation of the American autonomy and the subsequent insurgent independence, and the emergence of the republican nationalism. This approach gives importance to the relevance of long-term historicantecedents and grants interpretive clout to the issue of identity and the leadership of specific individuals (Santander y Bolívar). Finally, it is suggested that the use of periodization transcendsmethodology and that it must serve as basis in the review of the nationalistic ideology and the Eurocentric paradigm which impedesthe creation of a strictly Latin American history.