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  • GRADUATE RESEARCH NOTEBOOKS

    2026-01-21

    GRADUATE RESEARCH NOTEBOOKS

    The journal Almanack, dedicated to publishing texts linked to the history of the formation of Latin American nation-states between the 18th and 19th centuries, is launching a new editorial section aimed at strengthening ties with graduate studies. Master's and doctoral students will now have a specific section dedicated to disseminating their ongoing research. The section will comprise a maximum of nine texts per year, with up to six thousand words each. Texts will be submitted to double-blind peer review, and their content may vary between the presentation of partial results and historiographical reviews. In dialogue with student representation bodies – such as the SEO Graduate Students section – Almanack will define annual themes for this section, where the composition of authors must respect the regional, racial, and gender diversity goals stipulated by the journal's guidelines. In partnership with the Digital Networks team, this section will invite authors to produce videos on research tools and methods, as well as to establish a dialogue with undergraduates through "Almanack Responds".

    The 2026 theme is: Parliaments, Assemblies, and Elections across the Americas: Disputes surrounding Representation

    Submissions will be accepted until June 5th.

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  • Invitation to read the dossier: "Persistencia y cambios en la regulación comercial iberoamericana durante la era de las revoluciones"

    2025-11-24

    Dear Readers,

    We are pleased to announce the publication of the dossier in the 39th issue of Almanack: "Persistencia y cambios en la regulación comercial iberoamericana durante la era de las revoluciones," which includes an opening text by Laurine Manac'h and Martín L. E. Wasserman. The articles are:

    Laurine MANAC'H;  Martín L. E. Wasserman - Continuity and changes in trade regulation in the iberian-american world during the age of revolutions. Topics and questions in current historiography

    Gabriela Sofia Gonzalez Mireles - In truth and in good faith: family business, neutral trade and extraordinary licenses among the Murphy Family

    Arnaud Bartolomei - The last battle of the consulado of Cadiz. The struggle of Cadiz’s trade against the dismantling of the carrera de Indias (1797-1824)

    Antonio Ibarra - From commercial privilege to the dissolution of powers and corporate sovereignty: theinstitutional decline of the Guadalajara trade consulate, 1808-1824

    Pablo Ferreira Rodríguez - The war over bread. disputes between bakers and the Montevideo council, 1824-26

    The dossier articles and the other texts in this issue can be accessed by clicking here  

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  • Invitation to read the dossier: Scandals, Lies, and Crimes: The Place of Commotion in the Periodical Press

    2025-11-17

    Dear Readers,

     

    We are delighted to announce that the dossier 'Scandals, Lies, and Crimes: The Place of Commotion in the Periodical Press' now has all of its texts available in the 2025 volume of the Revista Almanack.

     

    The following articles are now available:

     

    Godoi, Rodrigo Camargo de - The types, the ink and toga: legal debates on freedom of the press in the Brazilian Empire

     

    Souza Júnior, Paulo Montini de Assis - On the stage of History, the general of the masses: the construction of an insult amidst political intrigues, leaked correspondence, and the scandal of a restorationist uprising in 1834

     

    Guimarães, Valéria dos Santos - The Fear of the Dead and the Living - Press, Race, and Sensationalism in prodigy faits divers (in Brazil), 19th and 20th centuries

     

    Lima, Amanda Ribeiro Mafra - Brave Heroines and dead Companions: Women and Crime in Carmen Dolores’ Weekly Chronicles (O Paiz, Rio de Janeiro, 1905)

     

    Camilotti, Virgínia - A Pátria - Controversy as the Dynamis of a Campaign for "Latin Fraternity" and Rapprochement between Portugal and Brazil

     

    Ferreira, João Pedro Rosa - José Agostinho de Macedo: The Throne, the Altar, and the Scandals

     

    Vaz, Cecília - "After the Violent assault, whose details we Omit": Portuguese Translations of the serial novel Confessions d’un bohême, by Xavier de Montépin

     

    Sardica, José Miguel - Sensationalism, Political Criticism, and Character Assassination: The Portuguese Press before the Government of João Franco and the Monarchy of D. Carlos I (1906-1908)

     

    Porto, Ana Gomes - The Maués trial and Criminal Investigation: Commotion and Crime in Printed Pages in the Amazon at the end of the 19th-Century

     

    The introductory article for the Dossier Scandals, Lies, and Crimes: The Place of Commotion in the Periodical Press, authored by Isabel Lustosa, is also now available.

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  • Invitation to read our new articles.

    2025-11-04

    Dear friends,

    We are pleased to announce the publication of new texts in volume 39 (2025) of the Almanack Magazine. They are:

    "Cultura literária iluminista na obra Os escravos de Castro Alves: a narrativa humanitária como estratégia de combate", de Alisson Eugênio
     
    "Político-“agricultor de canas”: Francisco Gonçalves Martins e a comissão para melhoramento
    do açúcar da província da Bahia (1852-1857)", de Silvana Andrade dos Santos
     
    "O Rio Grande do Sul e a eclosão da Guerra da Tríplice Aliança (1860-1864)", de Daniel Rei Coronato e Gabriel Passetti
     
    Do dossiê Escândalos, mentiras e crimes: o lugar da comoção na imprensa periódica, os artigos: 
    "Os tipos, a tinta e a toga: debates jurídicos sobre liberdade de imprensa no Império do Brasil", de Rodrigo Camargo de Godoi
     
    "No palco da História, o general das massas: a construção de um insulto em meio a tramoias
    políticas, correspondências vazadas e o escândalo de um levante Restauracionista em 1834", de Paulo Montini de Assis Souza Júnior
     
    Do dossiê Persistencia y cambios en la regulación comercial iberoamericana, mais um artigo:
    "La guerra por el pan: Disputas entre panaderos y el cabildo de Montevideo, 1824-26", de Pablo Ferreira
     

    Enjoy the reading!

    Almanack Editorial Team

     

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  • We invite you to read our new articles.

    2025-09-22

    Dear readers and colleagues,

     

    We are pleased to announce that new texts have been published in the 2025 issue of Almanack Magazine:

    "Black Jacobin, Black Girondin? Reconsidering Luiz Gama in History and Posterity," by James Woodard.

    "The Advent of the Press in the Province of Espírito Santo and the First Years of Publishing Activity in the 19th Century: An Analysis of the Newspaper Correio da Victória, 1849–1855," by Karulliny Silverol Siqueira.

    "Marriage, Quality, Equality, and the Circulation of Concepts in the Portuguese and Spanish Empires (1770–1820)," by Luiz Geraldo Silva, Bruna Marina Portela, and Priscila de Lima Souza.

    “Delimiting the Territory: Brazil's Internal Borders in the Nineteenth Century,” Francimar Ilha da Silva Petroli & José Carlos Radin

    “Between Nation and Province: The Formulation of Statistics in the Agricultural Colonies of Santa Fe (1863-1881),” Nicolás Beraldi

    “Slavery, Liberalism, and Justice in the Northern Backlands of Goiás: Ten Years of Slavery,” Rita de Cássia Guimaraes Melo

    The first article in the dossier Persistence and Changes in Ibero-American Trade Regulation, edited by Laurine Manac’h and Martín Wasserman, has been published:

    “From Commercial Privilege to the Dissolution of Faculties and Corporate Sovereignty: The Trade Consulate of Guadalajara, 1808-1824,” Antonio Ibarra

    Also new book reviews:

    SCHULTZ, Kirsten. From Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023 – by Daniel Costa.

     

    Happy reading!

    Editorial team

    To read: https://www.scielo.br/j/alm/i/2025.v39/ 

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  • Call for texts for thematic dossier

    2023-11-30

    Scandals, Lies, and Crimes: The Role of Sensation in Periodical Press

    Call for Article Submissions: Dossier on the Periodical Press of the Long Nineteenth Century

    Organized by: Isabel Lustosa (CHAM/Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

    The journal Almanack invites the academic community to submit articles for the dossier dedicated to investigating widely circulated printed periodicals during the long nineteenth century, considering the extended timeframe adopted by the journal (1750–1930).

    This dossier seeks to bring together research that explores the dynamics and impacts of journalistic formats marked by sensation, such as controversies, sensationalist news, and crime reporting. Articles should examine how these journalistic formats were used, intentionally or otherwise, to boost newspaper and magazine circulation, contributing to the consolidation of an expanding publishing market.

    The focus will be on the role of these media events in creating connections between the press and its readership, as well as their impact on the construction of narratives that, at times, led to dramatic developments or significant social repercussions.

    • Article submission deadline: March 1, 2025
    • Article evaluation period: By June 2025

    Submit articles through the journal's system: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/alm/about/submissions

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