ABSTRACT
The issue of interstate boundaries was a controversial and lasting internal dispute in Brazil throughout the First Republic. It was the result of a long process of dispute over the definition of the borders between the federative units, which had repercussions on different fronts, through judicial challenges, clashes in the legislature, and even the military field. However, a large part of the contesting premises was supported by the uses of the past, and with that, the question of limits established a historiographical problem. In this article, my scope is the historiographical debate on the boundaries within the historical institutes of the states that make up the old North of Brazil in the early Republican decades. For this, I mobilize as sources the books and articles published in the societies, from a comparative perspective. Thus, it is possible to understand the uses of the past from a historiographical trench.
Keywords:
Historiography; Question of limits; First Republic; Ancient North of Brazil
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