Mariana de Moraes Silveira

Associate Professor of Theory of History and History of Historiography

Federal University of Minas Gerais

BR

Biography

Mariana de Moraes Silveira is Associate Professor of Theory of History and History of Historiography at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), where she contributes to Brasiliana Project: Writings and readings of the nation and Studium Iuris: Research group on the History of Legal Culture. She received her PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Germany).

Articles (2)

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Transatlântico

Mesmo em um cenário historiográfico dominado por olhares globais, o interesse no Atlântico persiste – talvez porque disputas do presente sigam ressignificando travessias oceânicas passadas

enesfrptLuiz Felipe de Alencastro

South Atlantic

South Atlantic is approached as a space of circulation over three distinct periods. The first begins in 1500, when the Portuguese Admiral Álvares Cabral reached the South American coast. This period ends with the end of the bilateral slave trade between Brazil and Africa (1850). The independence of African nations started a third period.