Abstract:What is the importance of the periodical in the production and dissemination of knowledge? What are the specific conditions of the editorial process in journals with a consultative council? What type of differentiated role befits them, if there is one? The answer to these questions involves the discussion of the meaning of a periodical like the Brazilian Journal of History, founded in 1981 and, ever since, a decisive vehicle for promoting much new thinking in Brazilian historiography. E.P. Thompson, in a class… Show more
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