A republican past to call your own: national history rewritten by the 1870 generation of São Paulo’s Law School (1870-1880)

Authors

  • Juliano Francesco Antoniolli Pesquisador visitante do Laboratório de Estudos sobre os Usos do Passado (LUPPA) do Departamento de História da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

Abstract

The resurgence of republican propaganda in the 1870s in the Brazilian Empireinitiates an effort toward national history. This paper analyses the contribution ofrepublican students of São Paulo’s Law School to the work of republicanization of thepast, made on the basis of a reframing of historical characters and events that, accordingto their interpretation, showed the antiquity and legitimacy of their reform project forBrazil’s political structure. The rewriting of history from a republican point of view wasdone through propaganda-related newspaper articles and used theoretical assumptionsthat changed the way in which historical knowledge is built.

Author Biography

Juliano Francesco Antoniolli, Pesquisador visitante do Laboratório de Estudos sobre os Usos do Passado (LUPPA) do Departamento de História da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

Doutorado no PPG em História da UFRGS, em 2017.

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Published

2020-01-31

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 1 (2020): Janeiro/Abril

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