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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2015
It is fairly well known that in 1890 Guillermo Prieto was crowned the most popular poet in Mexico. Students of Mexican literature will add that he also wrote articles on manners and customs, criticism, original dramas, satire, travel books and folklore. Those who delve into political science have discovered that he served in the national congress for some forty-eight years, that as postmaster general he reorganized the Mexican postal system, and that he served four terms as minister of finance. Some have even seen the fat tomes in which he published his views on political economy, but practically nobody today knows that Prieto was also a writer of history. The purpose of this paper is to shed more light on Guillermo Prieto as a historian.
1 Prieto, Guillemo, Memorias de mis tiempos, 1828 á 1840 (Mexico, 1906), p. 77.Google Scholar
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9 Anonymous, “Apuntes para la historia de la guerra de México con los Estados-Unidos del Norte,” El siglo diez y nueve, September 3, 1848, and May 10, 1849.
10 Alcaraz, Ramón and others, Apuntes para la historia de la Guerra entre México y los Estados-Unidos (Mexico, 1848).Google Scholar
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12 Prieto, , Memorias, II, pp. 265–266.Google Scholar In this source Prieto attributes the chapter on “Polkos and Puros” to Payno alone, but in his Lecciones de historia patria escritas para los alumnos del Colegio Militar (Mexico, 1886), p. 657, he says that the article was written by both Prieto and Payno.
13 Alcaraz, Apuntes, p. v.
14 See articles by Prieto as follows: “ANGOSTURA (Batalla de la),” y Berra, Manuel Orozco, Apéndice al diccionario universal de historia y de geografia (Mexico, 1855), pp. 198–203 Google Scholar; an article with no heading, concerning the retreat of the Mexican Army to San Luis Potosi and march to Cerro Gordo, in Ibid., pp. 203-207; “CHAPULTEPEC (Asalto de),” Berra, Orozco y, Apéndice, II (Mexico, 1856), pp. 35–44 Google Scholar; “MOLINO DEL REY (Batalla del),” Ibid., pp. 854-859; “MONTEREY (Toma de),” Ibid., pp. 878-883; “PADIERNA (Batalla de),” y Berra, Orozco, Apéndice, III (Mexico, 1856), pp. 109–113 Google Scholar; “TAMPICO (Abandono de),” Ibid., pp. 467-472.
15 Prieto, , “Chapolrepec,” El museo mexicano, III (1844), 212–216 Google Scholar; reprinted under the title of “Chapultepec ó Chapoltepec” in Orozco y Berra, Apéndice, II, 31-35.
16 Prieto, , Breve introduction al estudio de la historia universal (1st ed., Mexico, 1884; 2nd ed., Mexico, 1888)Google Scholar. I saw both of these editions in the Biblioteca Nacional, Mexico City, in 1938, but I do not have them at hand as this article is being written.
17 Verdia, Pérez, Compendio de la historia de México desde sus primeros tiempos hásta la caida del Segundo Imperio, escrito para uso de los colegios de instructión superior de la República (Guadalajara, 1883).Google Scholar
18 Anonymous, , “Lecciones de historia patria por Guillermo Prieto,” La juventud literaria, I, no. 3 (March 27, 1887), p. 23.Google Scholar
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20 Priestley, Herbert Ingram, The Mexican Nation, a History (New York, 1930).Google Scholar
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24 Bulnes, Francisco, Juárez y las Revoluciones de Ayutla y de Reforma (Mexico, 1905), p. 18.Google Scholar