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width="345" height="209"> The award recognizes
Enrique Krauze's 'broad career as a historian,
essayist, editor and thinker,' the king said. </p>
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<p> The award's jury said Enrique Krauze offers an
independent vision of Mexican history </p>
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<p>Published on Thursday, July 8, 2021 </p>
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<p>Mexican historian Enrique Krauze has received a
prestigious Spanish award in recognition of his long
career in the academic discipline of history.</p>
<p>King Felipe VI of Spain presented the Ordenes
Españolas History Award to Krauze at a ceremony held
Wednesday at a historical royal residence near
Madrid.</p>
<p>The award, which was first presented in 2018 and
comes with a 60,000-euro (US $71,000) prize,
recognizes the 73-year-old’s “broad career as a
historian, essayist, editor and thinker,” the king
said.</p>
<p>The jury that selected Krauze as the winner said
his work “covers the entire history of Mexico as a
nation from a broad perspective that considers both
its actors and institutions.”</p>
<p>“… He offers an independent vision of Mexican
history in which indigenous elements combine with
the Christian culture received from Europe.”</p>
<p>Among the more than 20 books Krauze has authored
are <em>Mexico: Biography of Power</em>, <em>History
of the Mexican Revolution: The Economic
Reconstruction</em> and <em>Century of Leaders:
Political Biography of Mexico</em>.</p>
<p>He was nominated for the award by the National
Autonomous University of Mexico, of which the
historian is an industrial engineering graduate.</p>
<p>In his acceptance speech, Krauze said he has “many
affectionate links to Spain” and that receiving the
award in 2021 was “a very high honor” accompanied by
“the responsibility to remember the fifth centenary
of the conquest of Mexico.”</p>
<p>The historian, who was highly critical of <a
href="https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/amlo-asks-spain-to-apologize-for-the-conquest/">President
López Obrador’s request that the King of Spain
apologize</a> for the conquest, said the
civilization conquered by the Spanish was neither
the “Arcadia,” or utopia, depicted by Mexican
indigenous historiography nor the “hell” depicted by
its “Hispanicist counterpart.”</p>
<p>Krauze also said that the discipline of “history is
not a tribunal,” meaning that historians don’t have
to establish a definitive version of events.</p>
<p>“… The duty of the historian, especially in the
face of such a distant drama [such as the conquest]
is not to judge but rather … document, explain and
understand,” he said.</p>
<p>Krauze highlighted the importance of the mixing of
Spanish and indigenous blood – the <em>mestizaje</em>
– in forging a new culture and identity in Mexico,
asserting that it was the greatest legacy of the
conquerers and colonizers.</p>
<p>“The indigenous influence dominated in diet, both
cultures came together in medicine and herbalism and
in language, despite the dominance of Spanish …
indigenous languages survived and pervaded Spanish
with a variety of <em>mexicanismos</em>, tonalities
and accents,” he said.</p>
<p>Krauze said that Mexico and Spain should
commemorate the conquest together and not allow hate
to impede dialogue, as occurred after the former won
independence from the latter in a bloody war at the
start of the 19th century.</p>
<p>“In that way history will be able to achieve its
highest mission, that of being a path of
understanding and harmony,” he said.</p>
<p>British historian John H. Elliot won the 2018
Ordenes Españolas History Award, while Spanish
historian Miguel Ángel Ladero triumphed in 2019. The
prize wasn’t presented last year due to the
pandemic.</p>
<p><em>With reports from <a
href="https://elpais.com/mexico/2021-07-07/el-historiador-mexicano-enrique-krauze-recibe-el-premio-de-historia-ordenes-espanolas.html">El
País</a> and <a
href="https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/enrique-krauze-la-historia-no-es-un-tribunal">El
Universal</a> </em></p>
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