Abstract

GUTIERREZ ARDILA, DANIEL. Sovereign Indifference. Historiographical Discourse in Relation to Colombian Popular Republicanism. Anu. colomb. hist. soc. cult. [online]. 2018, vol.45, n.2, pp.119-147. ISSN 0120-2456.  https://doi.org/10.15446/achsc.v45n2.71029.

Despite the fact that the consolidation of the republican system in Tierra Firme was inconceivable without the enthusiastic support of the majorities, popular patriotism remains unexplored due to a strong political prejudice that acts as an obstacle to knowledge. The brief Restoration period experienced by New Granada and the abrupt changes of regime it entailed led many at the time, as well as later historians, to attribute an incurable apathy and indolence to the lower classes and to consider royalist excesses as the key to political change. Colombian authorities also failed to inquire into public opinion, convinced as they were that republicanism was the result of an imperfect conversion and that support for the royalty was a peninsular disease that affected "denaturalized" Americans only exceptionally.

Keywords : (Author) historiography of the Independence, popular republicanism, Restoration; (Thesaurus) public opinion, Police, Republic of Colombia.

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