The didactic potential of local history: Estates in the geographical space of San Nicolas in Ñuble

Abstract

The article being presented emerges from a research that was done by the request of the Illustrious City Hall of San Nicolas and that it resulted in a book that has already been published and that it rebuilds the main historical processes lived between the XVI and the XX centuries. With the doubles purpose of joining the historical research to a teaching aspect and, make a didactical contribution the forming of young citizens of Ñuble, with the book as a base an adaptation process was done that allowed to elaborate a text that rebuilds the evolution of states, that way it proves that the history of the area it’s linked, since its origins, with the actions of the important families, who linked their destinies by marriage, achieving the ostentation of the states and land owing. Said families are Lantaño, Mieres and Marion, union that would result in the existence of people of great importance for the political, economic and social development of Ñuble. The economic role it’s highlighted and the establish relation with their workers throughout diverse decades, which allows to reach an approximation to what happened in the country near the area. When the Agrarian Reformation came, along with the mini- statefication process, the enormous power and wealth of said family will reach its end, the same can’t be said about the collective memory of those who still remembers them, for better or for worse. From a didactical point of view the material has allowed that high school students have access to the comprehension of continuity processes as well as to a historical change trough the work of analyzing written sources on local history.