Resumen de A Promise of Historiographical Renewal for a New Generation of Radical Historians. A Review of Michel Gobat's Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua Under U.S. Imperial Rule (Durham: Duke UP, 2005)

Louis Segal

• There was a time—and it wasn’t so long ago—when many historians chose to write social history. The tools of the trade were often Marxist terms of analysis. These historians tried to tell the history ‘from the bottom rail up.” They tried to narrate their histories from the perspective of class and, in that process, rescue lost or unheard voices from “the enormous condescension of posterity,” as E.P. Thomson famously put it. In short, these historians tried to review the past from the vantage point of those who struggled for power, for identity, for sovereignty, for liberty, for dignity, and for historical agency.