Historiography of Social Movements in the Independences. Indigenous Peoples in the Kingdom of Guatemala

Abstract

The protests of the common people in the villages of the Kingdom of Guatemala, in the early nineteenth century, have been little studied. This article follows the course of Central American historiography, from the first works that dealt with such movements, influenced by liberal positivism, nationalism or Marxism, to recent works that harmonize with currents such as Subaltern Studies, the new political history or those that seek the integration of these different approaches. Special attention is given to the analysis of the political action of the indigenous people, to the methodological proposals and to the new research routes that all these studies propose.