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In history research the study of the life of an individual can be conducted in multipleways, but the biographical method stands out among available paths. However, in this article weseek to reflect on the approach of microanalytical research, highlighting the aspects that areinvolved in one of the objects of study of the microhistorian: trajectory. Our concern is todiscover in what way microhistory is an appropriate alternative for investigating individuals’trajectories, in order to understand the approach as an analytical instrument applicable to thehistorical study of a given reality. It is also our goal to expose microhistory’s approaches and thetheoretical and methodological challenges that surround it.

The aim of this article is to discuss the need of of conservation of nature of de Portuguese America, poited out by Friar José Mariano da Conceição Veloso in the prefaces written for the work O Fazendeiro do Brasil, between 1798 and 1806. We will first comment on the education and the trajectory of Veloso, in Portuguese America and in Portugal. Next, we will link the activities of Veloso to the colonial policy of the Minister D. Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, specially from the formation of the publisher of the Arco do Cego (1799-1801). These items areintended to provide subsidies into the understanding of Veloso’s ideas on nature conservation, which is part of his proposal to modernize agricultural practices in Portuguese America.

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O presente escrito se constitui na transcrição do texto Como se deve escrever a história do Brasil, de autoria de José Rodrigues Leite e Oiticica (1882-1957), publicado na Revista Americana em quatro partes ao longo do primeiro semestre do ano de 1910. Estabelecendo um diálogo aberto com a Dissertação homônima de Karl Von Martius o texto propõe uma nova normatividade para a prática historiográfica em virtude dos debates, acirrados na virada do século XIX para o XX no Brasil, sobre a cientificidade do conhecimento histórico, e da necessidade de se determinar um sentido para a história do Brasil após a Proclamação da República em 1889. A transcrição segue a grafia original e as notas contidas no texto são do seu autor.

In Brazil, many areas of research have been studying the topic of drugs, although State policies have historically looked almost exclusively for medicine’s perspectives to support their legislation and government actions regarding psychoactive substances. With the intention to present other perspectives to analyze the topic, this paper proposes a short historiographical contextualization of drugs. The paper problematizes the concept of “drug” itself – which can have many different meanings, often carrying a pejorative feature in its daily use – and exposes the necessity of humanities’ look at the discussion, considering that medical and scientific perspectives have historically dominated the debates, both in the academy and the public sphere.

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The article aims to discuss the limits and possibilities of the emerging studies of business history. For this we draw a brief history about the development of this discipline, signaling aspects that encompassed its state of the art. Founded in the context of the expansion and solidification of Economic History during the 1930s, business history has been a constant object of improvement of its paradigmatic foundations established mainly in the universities of the United States and France. This article shows that, despite the significant advances, business history still needs to go beyond the formal boundaries of companies, moving forward on the historical performance of entrepreneurs and their firms in social and political spaces.

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The article deals with the discussion about the definition of “prehistoric” time in the debates that legitimated this concept in the history of Archaeology. Also, it demonstrates how naturalist and zoologist Emílio Goeldi (1859-1917), director of the Natural History and Ethnography Museum of Pará State (Brazil), during the last decade of the 19th century, got involved with such a conceptual definition through expeditions to Brazilian Guiana, today known as Amapá State, in Northern Brazil. I intend to emphasize and discuss the development of Archaeology as a scientific field, by defending that at that moment ideas about materially perceived pasts and notions about Indigenous cultures that inhabited the Amazon were activated based on the scientific discourse of the 19th century.

The present article aims to discuss the concepct of “heterology”, crucial to the understanding of the work of the french historian Michel de Certeau, to whom historiography is a discourse about the “other”. The writing of history, by articulating a social place to the creation of a narrative discourse through specific practices and techniques, becomes a way of dealing with the alterity of an “other” which is lost, of an absent one that, according to Certeau, is the object of history. Therefore, we seek to investigate how Certeau understands the articulations between the social place and the historical discourse, once they are essential not only to comprehend what historians do when they “make history”, but also the epistemological status of historiography itself.

The purpose of this article is to discuss the insertion of the Itacolomi Peak, a rocky formation with 1,772m of altitude, located between the cities of Ouro Preto and Mariana, in the in the formation of the idea of landscape and the identity for Minas Gerais during the republican period. This assay will be directed to the practices, intentions and discourses that inserted the Itacolomi Peak into a significant part for the regional history, the interpretation of the territory and the conformation of a cultural profile for the inhabitants of Minas Gerais. It is presented how Itacolomi received a prominent place in the speeches and actions that put in vogue asupposed supremacy of the state in the national context. It also made itself present in the narratives about characters and events of history and in the valuation of the mountains as characteristic of the landscape of the state. The text points out that it was in the historical construction of the landscape and of a local identity, called “mineira”, which this geomorphological formation has been established as an important natural monument for Minas Gerais.

the present article seeks to provide a brief overview of the musical and political exchanges between Angola and Brazil. It also aims to analyze in a synthetic way the discourses on the African matrices of Brazilian music expressed by black and non-black musicians and intellectuals between the 1970s and 1980s. These discourses influenced the realization of the Kalunga Project: when an entourage of dozens of Brazilian musicians toured Angola during the civil war in the year 1980. Another intention is to examine the influence of the Brazilian samba on the Angolan semba and what senses can be extracted from these cultural exchanges about the political agency of the Angolan musicians.

This paper aims to discuss the political conflicts engendered between the Empire of Brazil and the United States of Colombia in the second half of the 19th century. From the characteristic enclaves of decades of dispute, we will analyze the diplomatic strife involving the examination and validity of historical documents, as well as the interpretation in the field of international law, dating from the attempt to consolidate oh their domains in the border areas.. From the sources, we will undo the Historical Memory about the conflict produced by Duarte da Ponte Ribeiro, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Empire in diplomatic missions in the so-called Republics of the Pacific. With this discussion, we intend to insert the problematic of the political limits within the debates on the consolidation of the Brazilian Empire in the Second Reign, whose bases were also guidelines to ensure the broad domain of its vast territory.

The article proposes to discuss the possibility of feminine protagonism in Minas Gerais based on the sources and information gathered about the life of Maria Doroteia Joaquina de Seixas, the woman behind the mith Marília de Dirceu. We try to understand how she and other women sought to live some kind of autonomy within that society.

This article aims to analyze the representations and his political senses about Apartheid - South African racial segregation scheme between the years 1948 to 1990 - , through the speeches, interpretations and images present in printed news in the pages of Revista Veja which circulated during the years 1969 to 1975. Period marked by intense political-cultural changes in Brazil under the civil-military regime, in Africa recurrent to the processes of decolonization and independence, and in South Africa by the events resulting of the Apartheid regime. Through the analysis of its materials, it is intended to understand how Veja interpreted the events related to South African segregation policy and understand the role of the placement of these images in construction of this new project in Brazil adopted by the military governments.

This article aims to analyze female beauty in the 1930s and 1940s from the tonic advertisements "The health of women" published in the Women's Health Almanac. The purpose of this annual periodical was to advertise the medicines of the Daudt & Oliveira laboratory. To conduct this study, we approach the reflections of Georges Vigarello (2006) and Denise Sant'Anna (2000) to reflect on the historicity of the concept of beauty and the cultural changes that modify it both in the West and in Brazil, especially since the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. We will analyze the advertisements using the contributions of Maria do Rosário Gregolin (2011), thinking image and statement as a whole that composes a sense. We sought to show how the health of the female reproductive organs is presented in the periodical as the main source of not only health, but beauty and well-being.

Based on a brief debate on some divergent historical and literary considerations, this article explores the specificities of the fictional narratives in prose around the second century - modernly called novels - regarding the role of the reader in the re-elaboration of cultural tradition. To do so we compare some different poetic and historiographic meanings of the classical and Hellenistic periods. We conclude that the invention of a new discursive genre is distinctive of a new awareness of historical time.