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Brazilian Archives and Recent Historiography on Colonial Brazil
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2022
Abstract
This article draws attention to archival research by Brazilian historians in Portugal and Brazil and the fruits of these labors in monographs, dissertations, and articles. Following a survey of historical writing in the colonial period, this essay discusses the growing movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to preserve documents in libraries, archives, and museums in Brazil. The existence of such institutions spurred divulgation of manuscript collections through journals and published transcriptions of documents. The essay then traces Brazilian historiography in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as well as Brazilian responses to new trends in historical writing in the 1960s. A survey of archives consulted by scholars of colonial Brazil provides the background for the main section, which uses case studies to demonstrate how Brazilian historians have used these depositories. Scholarship published between 1983 and 1999 is emphasized. The intensive use of manuscript collections and the high quality of publications testify to the vitality of studies by Brazilian scholars of colonial Brazil.
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I acknowledge my gratitude to Laura de Mello e Souza for valuable bibliographical suggestions, to Consuelo Novais Sampaio and Júnia Ferreira Furtado for keeping me abreast of publications in Bahia and Minas Gerais respectively, and to Ernest Pjining. An earlier version of this study was presented at the Seminário Internacional sobre Fontes Documentais para a História do Brasil Colonial in Rio de Janeiro on 19 October 1998.
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