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New Research Opportunities in Ecuador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Rodriguez O. Jaime E.
Rodriguez O. Jaime E.*
Affiliation:
California State University, Long Beach
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The study of history in Ecuador is still in its infancy. Too few foreign scholars have ventured into the country's past and most Ecuadorean historians have failed to produce well-researched studies. Consequently, generalization and bias have passed for scholarship. Although there are many reasons for the backward state of Educadorean historiography, perhaps the most important has been the poor condition of the nation's archives. During the last decade, however, libraries and repositories in the country have improved tremendously. While not yet the equal of research facilities in many other Latin American nations, still it is now possible to do historical research with relative ease in Ecuador.

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Reports
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Summer 1973 , pp. 95 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © 1973 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

*

The writer spent the academic year 1971-72 in Ecuador, thanks to a grant from the Social Science Research Council.

References

Notes

1. Adam Szazdi, “The Historiography of the Republic of Ecuador,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 44: 503-515 (Nov., 1964).

2. Alfonso Ortiz Bilbao is publishing an index to these documents in various issues of the Boletín of the Academia Nacional de Historia of Ecuador.

3. Hermes Tovar provides a guide to these records in his “Las haciendas jesuitas de México, indice de documentos existentes en el Archivo Nacional de Chile,” Historia mexicana, 20:563-618 (April-June, 1971); 21:135-189 (July-Sept., 1971).