Carlos Pereyra (writer)
Carlos Hilario Pereyra Gómez (
Lawyer and columnist
He was the son of Miguel Pereyra Bosque and María de Jesús Gómez Méndez. As a lawyer, he was an ex officio defender in Mexico City, agent of Ministerio Público and member of the state treasury commission of Coahuila.
He directed the newspaper El Espectador in the city of Monterrey, collaborated in the newspaper El Norte of Chihuahua, as well as in the Positive Revista magazine, El Imparcial 'and El Mundo Ilustrado in Mexico City. Due to his positivist ideology he collaborated with Justo Sierra, but he was ideologically contrary to Francisco Bulnes.[1]
Teaching, diplomat and thinker
He taught at the
As a plenipotentiary minister of Mexico, he participated as a delegate of the Mexican Government, in the First Congress of the International Judicial Police, the first antecedent of what is now the International Organization of the Criminal Police,
He made an analysis of the relations between the United States and Mexico, he criticized the ideology of
Without considering himself an anti-liberal, he did not agree with the ideas of the Mexican Revolution, and criticized the revolutionary leaders Francisco I. Madero, Pancho Villa, Venustiano Carranza, and Plutarco Elías Calles.[6]
Writer and historian
As historian, he started with his home state when he wrote Historia de Coahuila, far from pronouncing himself as an indigenist or regionalist, the work aims to lean towards a
In 1916 he settled in Spain, despite not applying for nationality, he considered this country of residence as his new homeland; He met the Venezuelan Rufino Blanco Fombona and collaborated for the Editorial América.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there was a strong anti-Spanish sentiment, mainly as result of the
Pereyra set the goal of reinvigorating everything
He specialized in maritime explorations, in the foundations in America and in Latin American social life, making comparisons with the English civilization in North America. In his work he expressed his great admiration for
Academic and awards
He was elected a notable corresponding member of the
Publications and works
Among his works and publications are:
- Historia de Coahuila (History of Coahuila) (1898–1904)
- De Barradas a Baudin: un libro de polémica historial (From Barradas to Baudin: a book of controversial history) (1904)
- Juárez discutido como dictador y estadista (Juárez discussed as dictator and statesman) (1904)
- Correspondencia entre los principales intervencionistas mexicanos (Correspondence between the main Mexican interventionists) (1905)
- Hernán Cortés y la epopeya de Anáhuac (Hernán Cortés and the epic of Anahuac) (1906)
- Historia del pueblo mejicano (History of the Mexican people) (1906)
- La doctrina de Monroe: El destino manifiesto y el imperialismo (The Monroe Doctrine: Manifest Destiny and Imperialism) (1908)
- El mito de Monroe (The myth of Monroe) (1914)
- Bolívar y Washington. Un paralelo imposible (Bolivar and Washington. An impossible parallel) (1915)
- Descubrimiento y conquista de Méjico (Ampliación al prólogo a la obra de Bernal Díaz del Castillo) (Discovery and conquest of Mexico) (Extension to the prologue to the work of Bernal Díaz del Castillo)) (1915)
- Tejas, la primera desmembración de Méjico (Texas, the first dismemberment of Mexico) (1917)
- Francisco Pizarro y el tesoro de Atahualpa (Francisco Pizarro and the treasure of Atahualpa) (1917)
- El crimen de Woodrow Wilson: Su contubernio con Villa.- Sus atentados en Santo Domingo.- Su régimen corruptor en Nicaragua.- Los dos polos de la diplomacia yanqui: la hipocresía y el miedo. Prólogo de Rufino Blanco-Fombona (Woodrow Wilson's crime: His condemnation with Villa.- His attacks in Santo Domingo.- His corrupting regime in Nicaragua.- The two poles of Yankee diplomacy: hypocrisy and fear. Foreword by Rufino Blanco-Fombona) (1917)
- La constitución de Estados Unidos como instrumento de dominación plutocrática (The constitution of the United States as an instrument of plutocratic domination) (1917)
- Rosas y Thiers: La diplomacia europea en el Río de la Plata, 1838–1850 (Rosas and Thiers: European diplomacy in the Rio de la Plata, 1838–1850) (1919)
- Francisco Solano López y la Guerra del Paraguay (Francisco Solano López and the War of Paraguay) (1919)
- La Tercera Internacional. Doctrinas y controversias (The Third International. Doctrines and controversies) (1920)
- La conquista de las rutas oceánicas (The conquest of ocean routes) (1923)
- Historia de la América española (8 volúmenes) (History of Spanish America (8 volumes)) (1925)
- Las huellas de los conquistadores (The footsteps of the conquerors) (1929)
- Breve historia de la América (Brief history of the Americas) (1930)
- La obra de España en América (The work of Spain in America) (1930–1944)
- El mito de Monroe, 1763–1869 (The myth of Monroe, 1763–1869) (1931)
- Cartas confidenciales de la Reina María Luisa y de don Manuel Godoy (Confidential letters of Queen Maria Luisa and Don Manuel Godoy) (1935)
- Los archivos secretos de la historia (The secret archives of history) (1935)
- El fetiche constitucional americano: De Washington al segundo Roosevelt (The American Constitutional Fetish: From Washington to the Second Roosevelt) (1942)
- Quimeras y verdades en la historia] (Chimeras and truths in history) (1945)
- México falsificado (Counterfeit Mexico) (1949 posthumous edition)
- Prólogo y antología de la obra de Bernal Díaz del Castillo; Descubrimiento y conquista de Méjico (Historia verdadera la conquista de la Nueva España) (Foreword and anthology of the work of Bernal Díaz del Castillo; Discovery and conquest of Mexico (True history the conquest of New Spain)) (1915)
- Prólogo a la obra de Oliveria Lima, Formación histórica de la nacionalidad brasileña (Foreword to the work of Oliveria Lima, (Historical formation of Brazilian nationality)) (1918)
- Prólogo de la obra de Othón Peust, La defensa nacional de México (Foreword to the work of Othón Peust, The National Defense of Mexico)
- Prólogo de la obra de Eduardo Prado, La ilusión yanqui (Foreword by Eduardo Prado's work, The Yankee Illusion)
Compilations and biographies
- Carlos Pereyra, publication of the Ministry of Public Education (1948)
- Carlos Pereyra the man and his work, notes and prologue by Manuel González Ramírez (1948)
- Carlos Pereyra and his work, Ángel Dotor y Municio (1948)
- Carlos Pereyra, walking knight of history, Mexico Historical Research Institute, Andrés Quirarte (1952)
- El historiador Carlos Pereyra y su idea de la historia (The historian Carlos Pereyra and his idea of history), Martha González Pérez (1964)
- Carlos Pereyra, Luis Garrido (1969)
- Carlos Pereyra, historiador de América (Carlos Pereyra, historian of the Americas) Edberto Oscar Acevedo (1986)
- Carlos Pereyra, Ramón Ezquerra Abadía (1987)
See also
References
- ^ Kozel, Andrés Op.cit. P.5
- ^ "Carlos Pereyra (1871–1942)". Proyecto de filosofía en español. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
- ^ Journal of Monaco, 5 May 1914
- ^ Kozel, Andrés Op.cit. p.14-21
- ^ Arenal Fenochio, Jaime del Op.cit. p.36
- ^ Arenal Fenochio, Jaime del Op.cit. P.33
- ^ a b c Pereyra, Carlos Op.cit. Biographical notes by Martín Quirarte
- ^ Jesús Guisa y Azevedo (1975). "Carlos Pereyra". Semblanzas de académicos. (Nuestros humanistas). Retrieved 19 April 2011.[dead link]
- ^ Academia Mexicana de la Historia (ed.). "Miembros anteriores de la Academia". Archived from the original on 23 September 2009. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
Bibliography in Spanish
- ARENAL Fenochio, Jaime del (1987) Los tres Monroe de Pereyra Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, texto en la web[dead link] consultado el 21 de noviembre de 2009
- KOZEL, Andrés; MONTIEL, Sandra Carlos Pereyra y la doctrina de Monroe, El Colegio de México, texto en la web consultado el 21 de noviembre de 2009
- PEREYRA, Carlos (1930) Hernán Cortés (1971) prólogo y apuntes biográficos de Martín Quirarte; México ed. Porrúa ISBN 970-07-6062-6
- CARBONELL, Diego (1921). "La obra histórica de Don Carlos Pereyra". En: Juicios Históricos. Rio de Janeiro: Typographia do annuario do Brasil.