The Historiography of Brazil 1808-1889

Bibliographic Data

ID2816740
AuthorsStanley J Stein (corresponding author)
Year1960
Volume40
Issue2
Pages234
Publication date1960-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2510025
OpenAlexW4252895135, W2326389350
LanguageEN
Citations received10

N REVIEWING the historiography of nineteenth-century Brazil produced in the four decades following the First World War, three factors emerge.1 In the first place, the output was large, compared with that of earlier periods of historiography. Seconidly, not only historians but economists, anthropologists, and sociologists contributed to the writing of history. In the third place, historical publications were more analytical than narrative, reflecting the growing professionalization of the historian's craft. In Brazil the search for tradition as well as the hunger for knowledge of the past, both forms of nationalism, help to explain the volume and scope. The emergence of a larger reading public, the product of a growing middle class, was another factor. Yet it is no exaggeration to presume that the turbulent post-war decades, as the rate of Brazilian modernization accelerated, encouraged many to look to the past for insight into the manifold problems of their times. Some looked to the past for apparent order and stability; others, to find out why their predecessors had left so many unresolved problems. The interests, prejudices, and ideals of the post-war generation of Brazilianists were reflected in the historiographical output of those years. In the post-war years, three decades after the proclamation of the republic in 1889, disappointment and cynicism replaced the optimism

Archaeology · Historiography · History · History of Colonial Brazil · History of Education Research in Brazil · Sociology and Education in Brazil

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