Manoel Bomfim: "pensador da história" na Primeira República

Abstract

This article examines Manoel Bomfim's intellectual ideas regarding historiography and Brazilian historians. Using as main source Bomfim's book entitled O Brasil na História (1930), this aproach focuses on the tension in his book, between the search of scientific imparciality and the demands for intellectual engagement in the defense of Nation.

Manoel Bomfim; nation; national history