History of Chile (1891 - 1973), a book written by the Chilean historian Gonzalo Vial, which aims to understand the period of Chilean history between 1891 and 1973. The book is clearly inspired as a continuation of Francisco's History of Chile Antonio Encina, who arrived until 1891. His plan of work is to narrate the story that occurred between the suicides of presidents Balmaceda and Allende, from a conservative historiographical perspective (the author is a disciple of Jaime Eyzaguirre), to point out the causes of the failure of the Chilean democracy and led to the coup d'état of 1973, according to the intentions that the author himself shows in the prologue.
But unlike the previous general stories, his first volume is not about politics but about Chilean society in general at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, encompassing culture and economy, but in the following volumes he takes up the traditional path of political narration over the other edges.
One of the criticisms of his book is given by the derogatory term that qualifies the middle class: "mediocracy", common in the first volumes, but then changed to "mesocracy" in the following.
The publication of Volume I began in 1981, and nowadays it reaches Volume V, published in 2001 by the Zig-Zag publishing house, which reached the year 1938. Published volumes
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