Revista Brasileira De Historia 

About: Revista Brasileira De Historia is an academic journal published by National History Association. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Context (language use). It has an ISSN identifier of 0102-0188. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 829 publications have been published receiving 4489 citations. The journal is also known as: RBH.

Fontes visuais, cultura visual, história visual: balanço provisório, propostas cautelares

Abstract: The aim of this article is to displace the historian's focus on visual sources (iconography, iconology) into a more rewarding treatment of visuality as an important dimension of social life and historical processes. After a survey of contributions brought in by Art History, Visual Anthropology, Visual Sociology and Visual Culture Studies, concerning visual records and visual regimes, the author introduces a few prerequisites for a Visual History - intended not as a new academic feud, but as a set of strategic operational means of enhancing historical research in all its domains.

Versões e controvérsias sobre 1964 e a ditadura militar

Abstract: O principal objetivo deste artigo e expor e discutir as mais importantes correntes da historiografia sobre o Golpe de 1964 e confrontar algumas questoes controvertidas sobre repressao politica, censura e outros temas da ditadura militar.

The edge of evolution: the search for the limits of darwinism

Abstract: When Michael J. Behe's first book, "Darwin's Black Box, " was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement. Critics howled, yet hundreds of thousands of readers -- and a growing number of scientists -- were intrigued by Behe's claim that Darwinism could not explain the complex machinery of the cell. Now, in his long-awaited follow-up, Behe presents far more than a challenge to Darwinism: He presents the evidence of the genetics revolution -- the first direct evidence of nature's mutational pathways -- to radically redefine the debate about Darwinism. How much of life does Darwin's theory explain? Most scientists believe it accounts for everything from the machinery of the cell to the history of life on earth. Darwin's ideas have been applied to law, culture, and politics. But Darwin's theory has been proven only in one sense: There is little question that all species on earth descended from a common ancestor. Overwhelming anatomical, genetic, and fossil evidence exists for that claim. But the crucial question remains: "How" did it happen? Darwin's proposed mechanism -- random mutation and natural selection -- has been accepted largely as a matter of faith and deduction or, at best, circumstantial evidence. Only now, thanks to genetics, does science allow us to seek direct evidence. The genomes of many organisms have been sequenced, and the machinery of the cell has been analyzed in great detail. The evolutionary responses of microorganisms to antibiotics and humans to parasitic infections have been traced over tens of thousands of generations. As a result, for the first time in history Darwin's theory can be rigorously evaluated. The results are shocking. Although it can explain marginal changes in evolutionary history, random mutation and natural selection explain very little of the basic machinery of life. The "edge" of evolution, a line that defines the border between random and nonrandom mutation, lies very far from where Darwin pointed. Behe argues convincingly that most of the mutations that have defined the history of life on earth have been nonrandom. Although it will be controversial and stunning, this finding actually fits a general pattern discovered by other branches of science in recent decades: The universe as a whole was fine-tuned for life. From physics to cosmology to chemistry to biology, life on earth stands revealed as depending upon an endless series of unlikely events. The clear conclusion: The universe was designed for life.

Futebol é "coisa para macho"?: Pequeno esboço para uma história das mulheres no país do futebol

Abstract: The article intents to present and analyze the opinions about Brazilian women's appearance in and out stadiums and fields during the first half of the XXth century, a crucial moment to the construction of the "soccer country" idea and identity. The purpose is to discuss which game integration forms were allowed to the women, which of their manifestation were forbidden and especially the means ihmplicated in that permissions and prohibitions.