Almanack para quê?

Abstract

W hen, in 2005, a group of researchers conceived of the Brazilian Almanack while working on the project "The Foundation of the Brazilian State and Nation (c. 1780-c.1850)" directed by István Janscó and funded by Fapesp (São Paulo State Research Support Foundation), their bet on this journal's longevity could not have been more precise. Conceived as a space to reflect on the formation of the state and nation in a broad social dimension with an inclusive spatial scope, linking continents, people, and experiences, the journal responded to anxieties surrounding calls for globalization and to the impasses that had been placed on historical thinking about reality. A few years later, in 2011, this journal was no longer just the record of a single project. As researchers