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The Valenzuela Collection in the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Todd Little-Siebold*
Affiliation:
Tulane University
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The principal facts that direct the historic life of a country lie in the rulers who have served during different political eras. One can be sure that they are the protagonists of history because each of them creates with his or her actions chapters that will be recounted in many volumes through the years.

Gilberto Valenzuela González

While many researchers who have worked in Guatemala in the past decade would take issue with the perspective on the past reflected in Gilberto Valenzuela's statement, few would deny the importance of the collection of documents he began. In an era when history was the history of kings and battles, presidents and laws, one family's tradition of collecting any and all documents on Guatemala gave rise to a remarkable collection. The Sección Valenzuela of the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala offers today the basis for an in-depth reconstruction of Guatemalan history during the last century and a half.

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Copyright © 1994 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

Research for this work was made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation administered by the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University and by a Fulbright research grant.

References

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