TY - BOOK AU - Luiz Estevam de Oliveira Fernandes AU - Luísa Rauter Pereira AU - Sérgio da Mata PY - 2015 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1867-092X SN - 9783653057454 TI - Contributions to Theory and Comparative History of Historiography T2 - German and Brazilian Perspectives DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-05745-4 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049228 N2 - This book bears witness to the tightening of bonds that has been taking place among the Brazilian and the German historiographical communities in the last years. It presents a wide array of historiographical issues by various scholars: the role played by history writing in modern processes of nation-building, Alexander von Humboldt’s indirect Brazilian experience, the humanistic and methodical legacies of 19th century German historical thinking, current perspectives in the history of concepts, and the potentials and limits of history as a means for political education. KW - Theory of History, Public History, Historicism LA - English ER -