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Scales of Power: cartographies of authoritarian experiences in Europe and the Americas yesterday and today
No. 40 (2025)The dossier, organized by Karl Schurster (University of Vigo; University of Pernambuco), Tatyana de Amaral Maia (Rio de Janeiro State University), and David Nemer (University of Virginia), examines the continuities and transformations of authoritarian right-wing movements from the 20th century to the new far-right formations of the 21st century. Drawing on the history of European fascisms and Latin American dictatorships, the texts explore how, after democratization, personalist, denialist, and moralist movements have reemerged - now relying on digital media and democratic mechanisms to erode democracy from within. Bringing together studies on Brazilian Integralism, the civil-military dictatorship, and contemporary radical right-wing politics, the dossier offers a transnational and comparative perspective on these phenomena, emphasizing the role of History in understanding and resisting new forms of authoritarianism.
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Images, testimonies and archives: the cinematic representation of genocides, massacres and dictatorships
No. 37 (2024)The papers in the dossier, organised by Gilda Bevilacqua and Lior Zylberman, analyse how cinema, since its invention, has documented and shaped imaginaries about these events, being used both to raise awareness and to influence collective memory. Throughout the 20th century, films and documentaries became crucial instruments for historical analysis and understanding. The issue highlights the ethical, aesthetic and cognitive challenges in the representation of mass violence. The issue also features 10 interviews with Brazilian historians on the 60th anniversary of the 1964 civil-military coup.
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Capitalists, merchants and businessmen: trajectories of activity and commercial networks in the Atlantic world (19th century)
No. 36 (2024)This Dossier brings together good examples of how analyses in Economic History have expanded and diversified their perspectives. New themes and new documentary sources are incorporated to better understand the mercantile activity, social behavior and investment profile of merchants and businessmen in the Atlantic world in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the following articles, readers will be able to perceive the regional diversity of the contributions brought by the authors who studied the trajectory of merchants from the northern to the southern borders of Brazil, contributing with analyses that offer a more comprehensive idea of the mercantile practices of the time. Furthermore, through a varied repertoire of sources, the set of articles highlights the different areas in which merchants acted beyond the mercantile concerns of their daily lives, such as their interest in horse racing, philanthropy, ennoblement and charity.
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