As circunstâncias da Independência e a formação do poder do atraso

Abstract

For the author, from a sociological point of view, history, as a subject, is much more than description and narrative. It is above all a search for the social determinations that also explain the making of history. And the ephemeris, in this perspective, should be moments of construction of the critical awareness of the mismatches between what we can be and what we can’t be. The Bicentennial of Independence, therefore, can be a moment to review the conceptions through which we have been thinking and interpreting Brazil.