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MASTERS, Adrian. Meandros de la justicia en el mundo rioplatense, 1570-2021: Algunas reflexiones sobre Historia y Justicia de Darío G. Barriera. Bol. Inst. Hist. Argent. Am. Dr. Emilio Ravignani [online]. 2022, n.57, pp.158-166. ISSN 0524-9767.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.34096/bol.rav.n57.11499.

This review essay offers an overview of the content and methodology of the monograph Historia y Justicia: cultura, política y sociedad en el Río de la Plata (Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2019) by Darío Barriera. It traces the books’ three large sections on the development of a social history of justice in Argentina, the undertakings of various types of Rio de la Plata´s officials within a dynamic spatial, institutional, and social context, and the cultural and conceptual worlds of local justice. The essay highlights three methodological key approaches to Barriera’s work: agents, actions, and spaces. It then reflects on the author’s vision of Argentina’s essence, questioning the implicit and explicit diagnosis of an ossified nation, on one hand, and of its dynamic and fluid past, on the other. It asks: is ‘the colonial’ a destiny for Latin America – a gnarled version of the West’s ‘End of History’?

Palabras clave : History of the Rio de la Plata; Argentine history; Colonial history; Social history; Cultural history; Institutional history; Rural history; Conceptual history; Historiography; Derecho indiano; Local justice; Spanish Empire; Spatial turn.

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