The aim of this article is to recall the need for historical research on haciendas and the rural world in Central Andean America, which has been neglected int the last decades. At the same time, however, it review the questions that need to be addressed in order to go beyond the generalisations or conceptualisations that were made, especially during the second half of the 20th century. This historiographical approach try to concentrate on three main issues: firstly, the origins and formation of the Andean hacienda; secondly, the problem of work and remuneration in the rural world; thirdly, the form of possession represented by haciendas and latifundios and their evolution, in the face of the disentailment and the end of ecclesiastical and civil mortmain of the 19th century, before the agrarian reforms of the 20th century.

Some of the characteristics of the practice of the office of historian by Pierre Vilar appear, just like their main contributions to the enrichment of the historical discipline. thinking historically, whereas vital and constant challenge, because in his opinión each citizen could and had practice it, avoinding the repetition of the committed errors discarding the negligences and tragedies of the past. Although needing the differences that separated to him of their present axponets, Pierre Vilar registered its work in the apirit of the founderds of the Annales magazines. But is work had two essential fidelities: on the one hand, the economic and social history of Ernest Labrousse, to that considered like its teacher. On the other hand the fecundity and vitality of the Maxist historical theary to understand the past and to try know the present.

​The context of a medium-importance financial crisis-such as the 1914 one, at the beginning of the Great War, that would present a series of problems new to Peru, has given us the opportunity to probe into the practices and idiosyncrasies of the political members of the Peruvian State of that time. By analyzing the Journal of Parliamentary Debates -a source for historical research still little used- we have been able to conretely examine the process of adoption of economic and financial policies, and the conflicts inherent to it, in the context of the beginning of the first world war. By observing the relationships between the Political Power and the Civil Society we have been able to verify some constants about the way policy decisions are taken. That is, we have been able to analyze, in terms of a recent past, some of the evolucions of the contemporary peruvian political system, whic...

Some of the characteristics of the practice of the office of historian by Pierre Vilar appear, just like their main contributions to the enrichment of the historical discipline. thinking historically, whereas vital and constant challenge, because in his opinión each citizen could and had practice it, avoinding the repetition of the committed errors discarding the negligences and tragedies of the past. Although needing the differences that separated to him of their present axponets, Pierre Vilar registered its work in the apirit of the founderds of the Annales magazines. But is work had two essential fidelities: on the one hand, the economic and social history of Ernest Labrousse, to that considered like its teacher. On the other hand the fecundity and vitality of the Maxist historical theary to understand the past and to try know the present.