Historiographical Production Research Articles

O mercado colonial: a construção de um espaço interno

Este artigo analisa a produção historiográfica sobre o mercado interno na América Portuguesa. Discute as implicações da utilização do conceito de um espaço colonial fragmentado, o qual somente no final do século XVIII passou a possuir um projeto de integração dentro do Império Luso-Brasileiro.

Religious Frontiers and Overlapping Cultural Borders: The Power of Personal and Political Exchanges in the Works of Alfonso X of Castile (1252–1284)

Religious beliefs and creeds have contributed to define identities and a sense of belonging for both individuals and entire communities over the centuries, generating in some cases unsurpassable social barriers. This also applied to the situation of the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages: a melting pot within which Muslims, Christians and Jews interacted, not always without animosity and friction. The questions which I endeavour to answer in this study are how did Christian powers consider and interact with Muslim rulers and subjects? What were the motivations behind the agreement of such relationships? To what extent were they morally and officially accepted? What were the differences, if any, from the customary vassal bonds? These are the main objects of scrutiny of my analysis which will focus on the fragile borders which existed between personal and political inter-faith relationships, examined through the perspective of the historiographical and poetic production attributed to the scriptorium of Alfonso X of Castile (1252–1284).

Progresso e decadência na história filosófica de Voltaire

O artigo analisa como a produção historiográfica de Voltaire opera com os conceitos de progresso e decadência. Procura-se demonstrar como o filósofo francês articula os dois conceitos em seus comentários de vários episódios da história mundial. Para Voltaire, o progresso depende da formação de elites capazes de conduzir as sociedades de maneira racional. Porém, quando essas elites se corrompem e transformam sua liderança em opressão, ou quando se alienam dos problemas de seus povos, apresenta-se a possibilidade de declínio. O texto também examina como Voltaire apresenta as principais características do progresso e da decadência. Dessa maneira, seu objetivo é contribuir para a compreensão da história filosófica do século XVIII, frequentemente apontada como um dos pontos de partida da historiografia contemporânea.

O lugar dos trabalhadores portuários na história do trabalho (Argentina, 1880-1930)

Este artigo investiga os trabalhadores portuários na Argentina no período 1880-1930 na produção historiográfica. Seu objetivo é traçar um estado da questão que sintetize as informações dispersas, evidenciando o que foi escrito e seu tratamento de acordo com os diferentes contextos de produção atuais. A importância dos trabalhadores portuários na formação do movimento trabalhista argentino é amplamente reconhecida; no entanto, até agora seu conhecimento não foi sistematizado em nível nacional na perspectiva da história dos trabalhadores. Nesse sentido, propomos uma agenda preliminar de trabalho para pesquisas futuras.

Masones y Sociedades Secretas: redes militares durante las guerras de independencia en América del Sur

The historiography that has given account of the masonic participation during the South American Independences, has been suspended during almost two centuries in the dichotomy apologist/detractive or in the structure mystification/demystification. Our article intends to analyze the historiographic production developed to that matter and to propose a new view of analysis complementary to the traditional one, that will allow us to understand the implantation of lodges as a process of Atlantic circulation that owns its particular rhythm and characteristics.

Writing the nation and reframing early modern intellectual history in Hungary

The article traces the development of Hungarian intellectual history of the early modern period from the emergence of the national romantic constructions of literary history to the recent turn towards contextualist and conceptual history. One of its main findings is the ideological importance of this period for the formation of the national canon, as it became a central point of reference for the emerging local methodological tradition of intellectual history, even if it was often compartamentalized under other categories. From this perspective, the article puts particular emphasis on ideological constructions seeking to define the nation and depict the emergence of modern national identity. This finding also offers a vantage point for analyzing the interplay between literary history and the socio-culturally focused approaches, which can be considered the main framework for the developments of the last two decades, when these local historiographical traditions entered into an interesting dialogue with the Western European and American schools of intellectual history. Along these lines, while pointing out the discursive continuities with the previous paradigms, which are shaping even the contemporary historiographical production, the article also ponders the ways in which the inherited (post-)romantic constructions can be successfully challenged.

VERDADE E REALIDADE NA HISTORIOGRAFIA ANTIGA

This paper intends to propose a review on the concepts surrounding theanalysis of the historiographical production during Antiquity, such as: truth, reality,data, testimony, evidence, facts, res ficta and res gesta. It was intended to focus on theeldest reception perspective in these works.

L'impatto dei siti internet sulla storiografia. Un'analisi quantitativa su un caso di studio

For over a decade, in Italy, the cooperative movement has returned to being of interest to the historians of the contemporary age, in particular those focused on business history. The gradual transfer of this study subject from the socio-political sphere to the more specifi cally economic-entrepreneurial one has undoubtedly revitalized attention onto this corporate typology and on its networks. It is also true, though, that historical research in this fi eld of investigation has been able to benefi t from the ever more effi cient and articulated help of two web sites such as www.cooperazione.net and www.movimentocooperativo. it, which have permitted a signifi cant qualitative and quantitative increase in historiographic production. In this contribution, we propose to associate the scientifi c production in question with the effective use of the sites by the scholars, to verify to what extent they were an infl uence during historical research.

Reflexiones sobre los festejos escolares del Bicentenario en La Pampa

The celebration of the 200 years of the May Revolution invites us to review History, its interpretations and its teaching. To do this, it is necessary to have a look at school, which is a key institution in the reproduction of patriotic narratives from the past. It is expected to make an approach to the school commemorative practices with the aim of investigating how permeable the school is before the new knowledge and disciplinary perspectives. The resistance of some practices that persist within institu - tions will also be taken into account. The possibility of incorporating disciplinary updating in History teaching will allow us to construct more historiographic visions of the past so as to denaturalize the mythical accounts of the national past. The sample that supports this investigation is made up of a set of school ceremonies held in primary schools from the city of General Pico. This work intends to contribute to the reflection on school practices, its connection with the area of Social Sciences and the relationship between the spaces of historiographic production and those spreading strategies which allow the incorporation of disciplinary updating in the school field.

Cuatro décadas de historiografía del evolucionismo en España

Historiographical production on evolutionism in Spain has given rise to a set of very appreciable original works both in number and quality. Indeed, the diffusion of evolutionist theories offers very attractive materials of study, as much from the point of view of the history of the ideas and the scientific theories, as from the approach around the studies of the broad social interaction that science establishes with its environment. The deep ideological and religious implications that the evolutionist question involves find in the Spanish case an especially interesting example. This paper tries to offer an overview about some proposals presented in the last forty years, so that it can give a cause for reflection for new research lines in the future.

A historiografia dos primeiros tempos do Brasil Moderno. Tendências e desafios das duas últimas décadas

Esse ensaio examina a importante produção histórica sobre o Brasilcolonial, nos últimos vinte anos e observa que as diversas comemorações– a viagem de Colombo, o descobrimento do Brasil, a abolição daescravidão, bem como a transferência da Corte – deram origem a umagrande leva de publicações e guias de pesquisas. Ao longo deste período,a historiografia enfatizou a História Cultural em vez da História Social,e foi fortemente influenciada pela França, Itália, Portugal e EstadosUnidos. Esse trabalho não abrange toda a riqueza da recente produçãohistoriográfica e, portanto, se concentra, unicamente, sobre quatrotemas principais: o primeiro é o crescente interesse pela História dosindígenas brasileiros, inspirado nos estudos antropológicos modernos; osegundo é a cultura afro-brasileira e a escravidão que continuam sendoum grande foco de pesquisas; o terceiro é a História Cultural da colônia,com uma ênfase sobre mentalidades, cultura material e dissidência; e,finalmente, um retorno ao governo e à administração que se aproveitouda revitalização da História Moderna dos primeiros tempos em Portugal pós-Salazar.

O campo da história e as"obras fronteiriças": algumas observações sobre a produção historiográfica brasileira e uma proposta de conciliação

The goal of this article is to try to identify a rather new configuration in Brazilian cultural and historiographic production -the increase in"boundary works" -and to outline a discussion of their epistemic status as compared to academic historiography. In the last quarter of a century the rising numbers of published academic history books probably reflects the recent expansion of undergraduate and graduate History courses and the increase in more educated readers. This was followed by an equivalent rise in what we here call"boundary works" -historical literature that incorporates academic research procedures but also makes free and liberal use of the resources of literary imagination and narrative. We propose that a return to the discussion of epistemic boundaries in science could be of benefit to an appraisal of the historiographic value of"boundary works".

D. João e as histórias dos Brasis

O artigo, escrito em forma de ensaio, aproveita as celebrações dos 200 anos da chegada da corte portuguesa ao Rio de Janeiro para discutir o tema nacional na historiografia brasileira. Argumenta que o Brasil no século XIX era mais aspiração do que realidade e que sua história foi escrita quase que exclusivamente a partir do centro político localizado no Rio de Janeiro. A partir da década de 1930, São Paulo, via USP, teria disputado exitosamente com a capital a escrita de uma narrativa nacional. Hoje, a democratização de nossa produção historiográfica estaria alterando esse quadro e enfrentando novos desafios voltados para as relações entre o regional, o nacional e o internacional.

JONATHAN EARL CARLYON. Andres Gonzalez de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library. (Studies in Book and Print Culture.) Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2005. Pp. 253. $55.00

This book assesses Andrés González de Barcia's contribution to Americanist scholarship, examining his bibliographical, editorial, and historiographical production. Barcia is well known among scholars of colonial Latin America for his role as the eighteenth-century editor of sources on American history that later became incorporated into the literary canon. Distancing himself from studies of the Latin American archive by Roberto González Echevarría and Anthony Higgins, Jonathan Earl Carlyon discusses Barcia's scholarship from the perspective of his mise en livre (things such as his editorial choices, printed page composition, and publishing practices), his creation of a biblioteca (a physical space, a collection, but more importantly a “forum where knowledge circulates” [pp. 12, 126–154]), and his production of an editorial paratext (the writing surrounding a text) as a privileged venue of scholarly output. Using approaches developed in the field of textual criticism (including issues of bibliography, editing, and book history), Carlyon seeks to establish Barcia's influence “in shaping the way we study colonial Latin America today” (p. 7).

A recepção da obra de Gilberto Freyre no Rio Grande do Sul

É no contexto do pós-Estado Novo, quando o revisionismo toma conta da produção historiográfica sul-rio-grandense, que os escritos de Gilberto Freyre obtêm maior repercussão entre a intelectualidade sulina. O artigo detém-se sobre as motivações desse alinhamento tardio com as opções analíticas do autor recifense. Em um momento marcado pela ascensão das ciências sociais e pela perda de autoridade das narrativas históricas até então centradas no papel integrador dos heróis militares, historiadores e críticos locais atuam conjuntamente em favor da reversão dos motivos que apartavam a produção textual da "província" dos temas em voga no centro do país. Nesse passo, fez-se mister a aproximação da História com o Folclore, este apreendido não mais como um ramo da filologia ou do regionalismo literário, mas sob um viés "sociológico".

HISTORIADORES E TEXTO LITERÁRIO: ALGUNS APONTAMENTOS

Neste artigo procuro desenvolver algumas reflexões a propósito dotrabalho do historiador com o texto literário, relação tecida de longadata, tendo em vista a narrativa como princípio comum, além docompartilhamento de categorias importantes para a construção dopensamento e da imaginação. Tomando “tempo” e “lugar” comoelementos constitutivos, inerentes e imprescindíveis ao surgimento eafirmação do romance como gênero literário e, simultaneamente, aocampo da história como disciplina, procuro circunscrever aspectos daprodução literária e historiográfica sobre o Brasil do século XIX, tendoem vista a preocupação marcante naquele momento com a apreensão da realidade por meio da verossimilhança e da veracidade, ou mesmo da ambição de verdade.

El Segundo Imperio: Pasados de usos múltiples

El Segundo Imperio: Pasados de usos múltiples

L’objet pour passion : remarques sur la démarche intellectuelle de Raymond Koechlin (1860-1931), historien de l’art

The object as a passion : remarks on the intellectual approach of the art historian Raymond Koechlin. Raymond Koechlin’s activity (1860-1931) as a member of the “Société des Amis du Louvre et du Conseil des musées nationaux” is very well-known today. His role in the UCAD and the character of his collection would deserve a study too ; therefore, this article is devoted to his historiographic production. On one hand it is the question of showing how Koechlin’s interests and method were affected by his activity as a collectioner of oriental art objects. On the other hand, the study aims to show that Koechlin’s Alsacian origins and his education in the Ecole libre en Sciences Politiques profoundly marked his approach to European and Asiatic cultures. The writer’s historiographic position is thus defined better, without disregarding the relationship between his colleagues and French and German friends.

Demonic possession and poetic exorcism in early modern france

New Historicist critics have recently drawn our attention to the errant nature of historiographical production. Michel de Certeau has reminded us that history refers both to a reality and a closed discourse. Stephen Greenblatt too considers mobility to be central to the historiographical method, noting that since Herodotus historical authority has been legitimized by eyewitness accounts of foreign lands and peoples. This essay will reconsider the vagaries of history in two sixteenth-century French documentations of demonic possessions. It will explore the role of gender and mimesis in these accounts and the means by which demonic ventriloquism is tied to the performance of power. Literary portrayals of witches and the demonic in works by Pierre de Ronsard and Agrippa d’ Aubigne will further illustrate the uses of traditional gender topoi to figure the foreign and subversive in a time of religious conflict and social change.

Questions d’historiographie tardive : à propos de deux ouvrages récents

This threefold survey article first comments on a collective work edited by Gabriele Marasco covering the whole of Greek and Latin late antique historiography, then gives special attention on the chapter in this same book which W. Liebeschuetz dedicated to Eunapius, Olympiodorus and Zosimus, and, finally, analyses and discusses Antonio Baldini’s recent book centered on Olympiodorus but which encompasses a large part of 5th century historiographical production in a general revisitation.