Por uma história das Capitanias do Norte: questões conceituais e historiográficas sobre uma região colonial no Brasil

Abstract

The article analyzes the use of the term Northern Captaincies, making a historiographical balance of the main contributions on the subject and contrasting it with a new more recent production of young historians. Therefore, it proposes a theoretical-methodological reflection on the concept, defending its use for a given context. We understand that the Northern Captaincies cover the conjunctures from 1654 to 1817, encompassing the context of the Restoration, but also of the political and economic transformations at the edge the XIX