Understandings of the Portuguese colonization of America during the independence of Brazil (1821-1822)

Authors

  • Cristiane A. Camacho dos Santos Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1808-8139.v0i8p109-116

Keywords:

national identity, Independence, Colony, nation, historiography

Abstract

This text presents propositions and ramifications of an investigation on the historical understandings of the Portuguese colonization of America during the independence of Brazil; the research focuses on the analysis of the periodic press published in Brazil between 1821 and 1822. I intend to identify how references to a diversified past were unified by expressions such as "colonial" or other similar words. I aim to demonstrate that the history of the Portuguese colonization of America - understood as an special and specific trajectory regarding the history of Portugal - is forged and used as a political instrument in order to support projects of future that made possible the Brazilian independence.

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Published

2008-11-01

Issue

No. 8 (2008)

Section

Research reports

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