The Independence of Peru as a representation in Nicolas Rebaza’s Anales del departamento de La Libertad en la guerra de la independencia

Abstract

In this research, a historical approach is made to the representations of the independence of Nicolas Rebaza through the analysis of his only book: Anales del Departamento de La Libertad en la guerra de la independencia, published posthumously in 1898. The context in which it was written is taken into account, as well as to whom it intended to publish. It is argued that his representations of independence were regionalist and Bolivarian in character, and that he elaborated them, specifically, from a liberteño regionalism that he began to assume in his youth and that was developed over time from a historical dialogue that began early with the Trujillo social memory of independence and the official history of this process, sustained from Lima and that, later, under the influence of the result of the war with Chile, ended up giving it its finished expression in the postwar political context, when he found himself immersed in writing his Annals