História

Abstract

Roughly between 1750 and 1850, the concept of history experienced, in Portuguese America and in Brazil, a dynamic indicator of changes whose magnitude and depth can only be duly assessed considering the entire period. Such changes relate directly to the deepening of the difficulties experienced by the Portuguese empire in the eighteenth century and to the establishment of the historical conditions that allowed, in the first decades of the following century, the rupture between Portugal and its American domains and the forming, in these, of a national and sovereign political unity, no longer Portuguese but Brazilian. To the Brazilian State and Nation, the concept of History and its mutations proved fundamental.

Keywords

• history
• identities
• historical time
• independence of Brazil