O historiador do Império e o advogado da República: os liberalismos Joaquim Nabuco e Rui Barbosa na República da Espada

Abstract

In the context of political contestation and the univocal advent of what has come to be usually called modernization in brazilian land, two are some of the figures that represent the ideology of social transformation commonly denominated as liberalism. In a closer analysis, it is perceivable that, though similar, Joaquim Nabuco and Rui Barbosa represent, in the delimited space of the “Republic of the Sword” (1889 - 1894), different poles of propositions for the future. Through secondary, primary and documental fonts this study argues that Nabuco’s monarchism is the result of his sociological episteme, as well as Barbosa’s republicanism is the logical consequence of his preoccupations with institutional and formal emphasis. These differences in structure of analysis also influenced in their activities choices in the first years of the Republic: historian and lawyer, respectively.