Institutions and derecho Indiano in a renewed history of America

Abstract

This historiographical essay addresses the scientific construction of the history of Spanish colonization in America through the institutions and the Derecho Indiano, promoted mainly by Rafael Altamira and José M. Ots Capdequí in the first half of the 20th Century. An interesting projection of that work can be observed initially in the first issues of the Anuario de Estudios Americanos of Seville.