The current stage of historical studies concerning the Brazilian independence from Portugal

Abstract

Lately, historiographical debates about the last decades of the colonial period seemed reduced to the issue of either a confrontation or an agreement of interests between Colony and Metropole. This article attempts to demonstrate that many among contemporary historians have already overcome this alleged dichotomy, in favor of a more culturally contextualized approach of the separation of the two countries, which takes into account different temporalities coeval to the complex reality of the period. It is our present intention to make such demonstration through an analysis of the book "Independence: History and Historiography", organized by István Jancsó and released during the last semester of 2005 by Hucitec and FAPESP.