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[email protected] Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Chile Sagredo Baeza, Rafael The End of “the” Chilean History in the Nineteenth-Century Historia, vol. I, núm. 48, junio, 2015, pp. 301-331 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago, Chile Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=33439875009 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative HISTORIA No 48, vol. I, enero-junio 2015: 301-331 ISSN 0073-2435 RAFAEL SAGREDO BAEZA* THE END OF “THE” CHILEAN HISTORY IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY** PATRIOTIC BALANCE The fundamental characteristic of recent research into nineteenth-century Chile con- ducted over the last twenty five years is the notion that the history of Chile is over.1 In a period that saw the end of the dictatorship and the politics of consensus, actors who were previously invisible have emerged in the historiography and demand the right to form part of history, to dissent, to be heterogeneous. The appearance of these diverse, suffering, dispersed, and anonymous Chileans has transformed the history of Chile –as glorious, edifying, singular, monolithic, and unalterable as its nineteenth-century foun- dations– into one of multiple visions and interpretations. In this more diverse history, the concept of “nation” includes more than a single community. The Mapuche national history, for instance, calls (perhaps still only rhetorically) for the incorporation of new voices. The state, the nation, and the public sphere are no longer the only central sub- jects.