Robert Southy’s History of Brazil
In this episode of New Work in Intellectual History, Dr Flávia Varella offers an analysis of Robert Southey’s History of Brazil and talks about the place occupied by this work in the development of her career as an historian. Along her book Um Brasil medieval: raça, clima e etapas civilizacionais na História do Brasil de Robert Southey, published in 2021 with Fino Traço Editora in Belo Horizonte, Flávia addresses how Southey's work has been interpreted by Brazilian historiography and explains the way in which her book, which originated from a revised version of her PhD thesis, proposes advances in the understanding of the central concepts of the English thinker's work in Brazil.
Dr Flávia Varella is an Associate Professor at the Center of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina at Florianópolis in Brazil, General Secretary of the Brazilian Society for Theory and History of Historiography and Editor-in-chief of the journal História da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography. Flávia works mostly on British brazilianists and the participation of women as history writers in Great Britain in the nineteenth century. Since 2015, Flávia has been developing activities related to Wikipedia article editing with the Project Theory of History in Wikipedia.
