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This essay focuses on the influence of Brazilian historian Ciro Flamarion Cardoso’s reflections o... more This essay focuses on the influence of Brazilian historian Ciro Flamarion Cardoso’s reflections on the design of current historiography of the Brazilian colonial period by presenting a genealogy of the key interpretative lines of the subject. It starts by surveying former matrices of colonial Brazilian history such as those of Roberto Simmonsen, Caio Prado Junior and Fernando Novais, for whom the logic of Brazilian history was dictated from abroad due to the country’s subordinate role in the world economy under commercial capitalism. Cardoso’s ideas paved the way for a new method of reflecting on the colonial period by placing emphasis on American societies’ internal logics. The offshoots of the debate and their implications for current historiography are discussed.
This essay focuses on the influence of Brazilian historian Ciro Flamarion Cardoso’s reflections o... more This essay focuses on the influence of Brazilian historian Ciro Flamarion Cardoso’s reflections on the design of current historiography of the Brazilian colonial period by presenting a genealogy of the key interpretative lines of the subject. It starts by surveying former matrices of colonial Brazilian history such as those of Roberto Simmonsen, Caio Prado Junior and Fernando Novais, for whom the logic of Brazilian history was dictated from abroad due to the country’s subordinate role in the world economy under commercial capitalism. Cardoso’s ideas paved the way for a new method of reflecting on the colonial period by placing emphasis on American societies’ internal logics. The offshoots of the debate and their implications for current historiography are discussed.