The market's meat: textbooks and the flourishing of book trade in the city of Rio de Janeiro

• Main Author: Alexandra Lima da Silva
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de História da Educação 2014-04-01
• Series: Revista Brasileira de História da Educação
• Subjects: livros didáticos; mercado editorial; história da educação; conhecimento histórico
• Online Access: http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/rbhe/article/view/38870

The goal of this work is to analyze the relationship between the flourishing publishing market and the significant investment made in the publication of textbooks, particularly in Brazilian History. Through various sources, such as textbooks, publisher catalogs and almanacs, ads in periodicals, among others, this study seeks to understand changes and continuities in the production of history textbooks in the core of the expansion of literate culture in Rio de Janeiro, from the mid-nineteenth century to the early decades of the twentieth century. It aims to show the actions of some of those involved in this process – authors, booksellers, publishers, teachers – in order to understand the meanings of the popularization of historical knowledge through school textbooks.