The article analyses the transformations in the concepts of what is history and, thus, in the forms of studying it after Foucault formulated his conceptual propositions. The change of the analysis' focus from facts and events to the epistemological bases of the discourse forms that conceived them will make it possible for the historian to comprehend the fields of power-relations in which power-games constitute themselves without detaining in a supposed documentary truth.
history; documentary history; new history; descontinuity; subjectivity