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This essay aims at thinking about the weight of time on the colonization of the Philippines, from the time the archipelago appeared in the Spanish horizon until the middle of the 17th century. In its first part, it highlights to what extent the establishment of colonization in the Philippines, from the perspective of secular or religious conquest, lies at a crossroads of heterogeneous temporalities. Secondly, it tries to measure the impact of duration on the circulation of information and on the lives of men. Finally, in a final sequence, it proposes to think about the incidence during that period of the circumstances, the missed opportunities, and the time lost.

This research recovers methodological and heuristic interests that developed a few years ago, which have led us to work on the local and global historical archives from a humanistic horizon. This task puts us in a different place as historians, for it forces us to rethink the social function of the archives and of the historians in those archives. In the Northeast region of present-day Argentina, the space for discussion on archives begins to be a terrain won over by historians, who develop projects to recover, digitise and conserve documentary sources. Throughout this article we will focus on characterising a set of global and local archives that are vital to Rioplatense colonial history. We are interested in problematizing about documentary dispersion and how we build documentary corpus from sources that lie in different repositories. Beyond exploring them and briefly entering its institutional history, the work is oriented to present an in-depth analysis of the documentary typologies that can be found in those archives and that are vital to historical research in the region.

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The author first establishes his pedigree as an early Atlanticist; then describes the geographical and chronological features of the so-called "new Atlantic history". The success of Atlantic history is undeniable. During the past twenty-five years or so, books and articles that identify themselves as "Atlantic" have multiplied, so much that few historians, especially among the younger ones, dare distance themselves from the new obligatory gospel. The author attributes two main features to the new Atlantic history. The first is mainly ethical, in that it assumes that certain moral categories, such as inclusion, diversity, multiethnicity, and multiculturalism, are intrinsecally good and as such must be applied to society as well as to the study of history. The second feature is epistemological. It assumes that by examining the Atlantic communities as a whole we improve the knowledge of their history. By examining this second feature, however, the author shows that the gap between the unattainable promises of the new Atlantic history and their practical realisations in terms of new knowledge is striking. Probably the only subfield of study that has really profited from this new Atlantic perspective is that of African-Atlantic history. There are, of course, a good number of good Atlantic historians. One wonders, however, whether the novelty represented by their works derives more from their originality as scholars rather than from their adherence to the new Atlantic canon. This article is based on a thorough examination of "Atlantic history" books and articles published between 1922 and 2016, that are listed in the Bibliography in chronological order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]